Did Alter, Dowd And Healy Mislead Readers On The Clinton-Rose Interview?

Media Matters criticizes Jonathan Alter — as well as Maureen Dowd and Patrick Healy of The New York Times — for misleading the public on the reason why Bill Clinton’s aides wanted to end his now-infamous Charlie Rose Show interview.

In omitting the comments, Alter joined New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and New York Times reporter Patrick Healy in publishing a misleading account of Clinton’s interview with Rose. Dowd claimed, ”He [Clinton] got so agitated with Charlie Rose — ranting that reporters were ‘stenographers’ for Obama — that his aides tried to stop the interview”; Healy wrote that ”[a]t one point, Mr.