[LIConFem]

To hear my late father tell it, the media became unreliable during the Watergate scandal. And my dad was a life-long Democrat (although he voted for Nixon and Reagan).

[marktwain]

To hear my late father tell it, the media became unreliable during the Watergate scandal.

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I think Watergate was where they found they were the masters of the country. They pulled a media coup that brought down a President.

McCarthy as an important step on the way there.