Once the media/entertainment elite lionized those two, a whole generation of journo-commies went to college and aimed to infiltrate the major news organizations, which they did.
But just before he died, former FBI kingpin Mark Felt outed himself. He explained how he was the secret "Deep Throat" who provided all the juicy details that took Nixon down. And of course, not a single word of remorse or contrition was heard from the Fake News.
In other words, all Bernstein and Woodward did was merely listen to what Felt was saying. They did not performed any so-called "investigative journalism" at all. So the entire premise of the commie journalists was fabricated by the press themselves.
In fact, it would interesting to trace the multiple streams of corruption and gullible voter habits that have created our current crisis.
I'd love to see a flow chart showing that -- if anyone has seen such a thing.
Well, they did check sources, but I get your point pundit. Listening to disgruntled 'intelligence' people also became 'standard' after Watergate. Intelligence is an easy source that's biased but credible. For their part intelligence folks learned how to milk that advantage with partnering causing a marriage between government and the press that gave us the 'Pravda' look to the MSM we have today. Also DNC war rooms discovered if you put MORE self serving stories into 'news packets' along with intelligence stuff that more of the stories you want run will run. (the more self serving stories rejected the better because editors felt good about their great judgement in catching the self serving etc etc etc.)Well, at least that's how it looks IMHO.