Watergate was a Leftist Coup, pilled off when they ( Leftist Media) had a monopoly with the thee networks and the three big newspapers.
You don’t have to limit that to “the three” big newspapers. What the Democrats had - and have - is The Associated Press and all its members. The AP “wire” is a continual virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets.People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. . . and the " conspiracy against the public” which Smith’s analysis predicts is in plain sight - all of major US journalism is cynical about American society. And since it is imposible to be cynical both about one thing and something else which is its opposite, andSOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.it follows that a journalism which is cynical about society is a journalism which is naive about government. American journalism uniformly advocates socialism because it is cynical about the alternative.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: . . . were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
American conservatism is skeptical about government and skeptical about society (else it would advocte the abolition of government).