How Petraeus Courted The Press -- Howard Kurtz, CNN
(CNN) -- David Petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the CIA. It was with the press. The retired general's skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career's worth of favorable headlines and has, to a remarkable degree, softened the coverage of his fall from grace. Petraeus accomplished this in part by granting reporters access -- though none quite as extraordinary as that accorded his biographer, Paula Broadwell, who several news organizations have identified as the other woman in the extramarital affair he has acknowledged.
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My Comment: He understood the importance of the media when it came to fighting America's wars. He gave them access to info, was available to answer their questions, and was very careful in presenting the war/military message when he could. How the media has reacted to this scandal has become an indictment on them just as much as it is an indictment on now former CIA Director Petraues. My hope is that in the future the media will not be as generous and gullible to future Generals as they have been with now Ret. General Petareus .... but I doubt it.
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