WORLD EXCLUSIVE! SORT OF! NOT REALLY!

As of this very moment in today's already half-over news cycle, Technorati tells me that I am the first blogger to post the text of Vanity Fair's press release on their forthcoming Deep Throat exposé — i.e. turns out it was W. Mark Felt all along (see this, too).

Could you be any more excited?

UPDATE — Other bloggers have posted it by now, so I may as well link to the PDF of the article as it will appear in the magazine.

UPDATE 2 — washingtonpost.com, today, sometime before 5:00 p.m., EDT:



washingtonpost.com, today, approx. 6:20 p.m., EDT:



Considering these Smoking Gun documents, how long do you think the Washington Post had this page put together? Maybe Woodward did the layout himself, with Ben Bradlee's approval? Then they both told Bernstein: "Don't worry, it looks good."

UPDATE 3 — Flashback: The Atlantic Monthly got pretty close in 1992. And long before that, the Washingtonian's Jack Limpert pretty much had it nailed in 1974.

UPDATE 4 — Reporters interviewing reporters! Via via cell phone and satellite from restaurants and studios throught the District. Washington is having a few drinks tonight. But the greatest parlor room guessing game since Tom and Sally is now over. The hangover is next.

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posted by WWB at 1:25 PM |