Thanks for your ‘hint’ kind sir.
And what newspapers are you referring to by the way? I saw a post by ‘Sky Sources’ or whatever. This is just an example over the years of a focus on Woodward. There is no ‘briefing’ here, there have been a number of articles questioning and discussing the detail of Woodward’s role in recent years. I’m no media whizz, but I don’t think they are what are called briefings.
Also, I don’t ‘defend’ him. I question those who attack him, as I am confident they have nowhere near the information required to do so, at least to the level and detail that they do. I don’t have enough information to say he’s brilliant as such either. But the notion of finger pointing at him for every thing is misplaced and misinformed I suspect, which is more my consistent theme. If there was even a consensus as to what Woodward’s specific duties are, with clear distinction about which decisions he makes himself, which are made by others etc - then fair enough. I’m not sure there is though, which makes all the moaning just seem like emotional brattiness, which is unbecoming!