“Participants in the successful Media Coup known as Watergate, now work to defend the attempted Media Coup against President Donald Trump.”
Yes, very good. I was 24 the day Nixon resigned, and no one was a more passionate anti-Nixon Watergate hound than I was. Live and learn, I guess.
But to your point - Watergate was much, much more than a “media coup”. In fact, pushing CIA-connected Woodward out front with Bernstein and concealing Mark Felt served the interests of the real conspirators - the CIA, the FBI, and foreigners who in 1972 just as in 2016 had their long-range plans upset by the results of an American Presidential election.
Then, as now, congressional Dems went right along without a thought to right and wrong. Then, as now, the “networks” were USED as a megaphone to drip out a false conspiracy story, chapter by chapter, right through the impeachment and resignation grand finale.
Except THIS time, the people had many more sources of information than NYT-WAPO-ABC-NBC-CBS, Walter, Chet, and David were in their graves, and Mitt Romney turned out to have ZERO influence on his fellow RINOs, who by some miracle held the line instead of taking their normal swan dive.
No, this was Watergate 2.0, but the “media” then as now were not the drivers - they were whoring themselves out, again, to a shadowy Deep State conspiracy organized who knows where but issued their marching orders through the ultimate Deep State pawn his own self - BHO.
At least they didn’t take up the Dallas option - not yet, anyway.
It is hard to know who, if anyone, is in charge. I don't think you can easily separate the heads of the media from the players in the CIA, FBI, whatever.
In both coup attempts, the progressive elite, very badly, wanted the current President gone. In Watergate, they were successful.
In whatever this attempt comes to be known - perhaps Obamagate?- they have been unsuccessful, for the reasons you give.