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THE PRESS SINCE WATERGATE: GETTING BETTER AND WORSE AT THE SAME TIME - The Great Coverup
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 THE PRESS SINCE WATERGATE: GETTING BETTER AND WORSE AT THE SAME TIME
 
 By Barry Sussman
 
 Posted in - Watergate at 50 on April 16th, 2022 0 Comments
 
 
 One long-lasting Watergate myth is that the coverage of the Watergate scandal was a great success for the news media in America, in that, as many have said facetiously, the press dethroned a president. There are three parts to this myth: first, that the press at large did a good job; second, that a few news organizations, led by the Washington Post, did deep, steady investigating, and third, mixed in with these, is the legend of Deep Throat, which is that a high-ranking FBI official gave Watergate reporters what they needed to bring Nixon down, all tidied up in a basket. I go back and forth in my thinking about the press’s role. Mostly I feel that the press did poorly. As I spell out in my book, The Great Coverup, hardly any news org...
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