It’s a journalist’s right, as well as her duty, to ask the hard questions

“ON the eve of his recent sojourn in Europe, President Bush had an unpleasant run-in with a species of creature he had not previously encountered often — a journalist.”

So writes John Nichols, associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Carole Coleman's Prime Time interview continues to reverberate, but most of the comment in the United States is favourable to her.

"Coleman was neither impolite nor inappropriate," Nichols continued. "She was merely treating Bush as European and Canadian journalists do prominent political players."