You are correct, Jim.
Watergate was a Media Coup against a duly elected President.
We were fooled because we were never told how much the Media covered for all the past Democrat Presidents from FDR on.
It was, in effect, carefully selected making of political scandal.
Politicians have been running scared of the Media since then.
Now, the Media power is being broken by technology, and they are frustrated and going insane.
We were limited as to where we got our news from back then. Fortunately that is not the case now.
And big media is the communications division for deep state. Deep state controls the news/communications. When the CIA destabilized or covertly aided in the process of destabilizing/overthrowing countries in the past, it always attempts to seize and or control the media. It's an essential part of the process.