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Another Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee, and Katharine Graham? In the MSM? Hahaha!!

They admired and loved the campus radicals who today dominate the Establishment.

The likes of Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee, and Graham today are the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological issue whom the real Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee, and Graham admired.

I remember.

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.

You are not going to find a Woodward and Bernstein in the MSM among the skid marks on Journalism's shorts.

BTW.. on Watergate, can anyone name one thing that Nixon did that JFK and LBJ did not do?

I can name one thing that the MSM did in Nixon's administration that they did not do in JFK's and LBJ's administrations.. they asked questions!

One example of the 1960's - 1980's, and who initiates what regarding "Democrats" and "Republicans"...

A study published in 1966 by the Council on Foreign Relations concluded that American citizens were more open to talks with China than their elected leaders. In 1971, Kissinger (a member of the Council) took a secret trip to Beijing to approach Chinese leaders, which led to Nixon's trip to China in 1972. Diplomatic relations were normalized by Carter's Secretary of State, another Council member, Cyrus Vance. Most people are under the impression that "Nixon" "opened up China", when, in effect, the true origins of the policy were outside of the U.S. government - who knows exactly where and how - and then the policy was officially adopted by the U.S. government from then until now.

The effects of "experts" employed outside the government are far greater than those of elected politicians. That's not to say every elected politician doesn't put his own "personality" on policies, but that major policy and strategic directions originate in the minds of various elites that are not elected. Mind you, these "elites" are not all working in the same direction as "conspiracy theorists" propose, and they certainly don't "control" every little minute event or every single person, but they do represent planning and coordination amongst a few influential events here and there (like revolutions, the introduction of popular ideas, etc.) as well as a small percentage of the population that is very influential. It is also very easy for investors on this "inside track" to make tremendous amounts of profit if they so choose, of course, since they frequently know extremely valuable "insider" information, however, in general, this policy generation, IMHO, has all the earmarks of simple arrogance.

Of course, the Woodwards of the world, etc., as well as their employers, are just a piece of the puzzle.

What throws a good kink in the works nowadays, of course, is that almost anyone can place information into the worldwide public square, in essence, having 1/2 the capability of an investigative reporter. The other 1/2, of course, is having access to non-public information as a result of investigation. Ergo, the O'Keefe's of the world...