“I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.”
They had “the truth” laid in their laps by a government snitch, and they STILL couldn’t discover what the break-in was all about. If that’s the pinacle of journalism, what good is journalism?
Orson Scott Card alert
Wasn’t the true reason that the Watergate breakin occurred was that John Dean wanted to remove comprimising information about his wife’s activities as the Heidi Fleiss of Washington? I vaguely remember Gordon Liddy going ballistic about this when it was finally revealed in the early ‘90s.
Ann Coulter makes a good case about the Left's hypocrisy with Watergate. She points out that the MSM was just as biased then, and that many equally scandalous events occurred with Democrats in the White House, but were never pursued by "journalists".