Basically Bernstein is using the same kind of reporting in advocacy of different reporting...
Something the media never tell you-
He was a Red Diaper baby, both parents card carrying Communists
“Alfred Bernstein, father of the former Washington Post journalist, ..... From 1942 to 1947 he was also a member of the Communist Party.
Carl Bernstein’s mother, Sylvia Bernstein, was active both in efforts to end racial segregation in Washington and in the campaign to save the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; she also was a member of the Communist Party
during the same period.”
THE LEFT SIDE OF CHILDHOOD By ELINOR LANGER