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‘All the President’s Men' Turns 50: The Film Inspired a Generation of Journalists and Buried the Truth
Red State ^ | 04/07/2026 | Brad Slager

Posted on 04/09/2026 4:47:26 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the motion picture that has to be regarded as the quintessential Hollywood release centered on journalism. ---SNIP--- It is a great film to behold, but we cannot regard it as a piece of journalism. With an already corrupted storyline in the book from which it is adapted, the Hollywood treatment could only further fabelize the events. That it went on to engender the next crop of journalists, darting off to J-school with corrupted impressions of the industry, explains so much of what we experience in the press today. Then there is the foundation of it all to view in a contemporary light.

Today, the Washington Post operates as a fractured shadow of the once-revered news source it was regarded as in the 1970s

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allthepeesidentsmen; allthepresidentsmen
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Interesting read about how the film and book took dramatic liberties and turned a new generation of journalists from truth tellers to self-absorbed crusaders.
1 posted on 04/09/2026 4:47:26 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
Today, the Washington Post operates as a fractured shadow of the once-revered news source it was regarded as in the 1970s

That's laying it on a little thick.
2 posted on 04/09/2026 5:02:34 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Kid Shelleen

FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Obama, Biden.... they all did many things much worse than Nixon ever did. But the media hated Nixon from Day One, and an obliging Congress and judiciary all conspired to destroy him and his presidency. It took us till 1980 and Ronald Reagan to recover.


3 posted on 04/09/2026 5:03:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Today, the Washington Post operates as a fractured shadow of the once-revered news source it was regarded as in the 1970s...

Once-revered?! By whom? And when?

4 posted on 04/09/2026 5:05:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nixon had to resign once he realized he had lost more than 66 senators.


5 posted on 04/09/2026 5:05:29 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Kid Shelleen

https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2023/08/from-book-to-film-with-all-the-presidents-men/

Fascinating info about the famous, “pull-away” shot in the Main Reading Room.

Today, that shot could be done easily with a drone, but 50 years ago, it was wires and pulleys.


6 posted on 04/09/2026 5:09:39 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Rummyfan

In ‘72 Nixon won 49 states and the largest popular vote percentage, ever. And not because he was good looking or could play the saxophone. Within a couple years he was gone.

Woodward was naval intelligence, and then ended up as a top reporter at the Washington Post for his first job. Could happen to anybody, I’m sure.


7 posted on 04/09/2026 5:15:55 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Kid Shelleen

Never watched it, I don’t do hack pieces.


8 posted on 04/09/2026 5:40:12 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Kid Shelleen

I like the story Bill Murray tells about reading “Wired”, the book that Woodward wrote about John Belushi. Apparently, the book is completely false. Murray read the book about Belushi and concluded: “They framed Nixon.”


9 posted on 04/09/2026 5:51:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Kid Shelleen

Watergate was a Media coup. The Media, lead by the Washington Post, showed they had the power to unseat a popular president who was elected in a landslide.

The Media was almost certainly in cahoots with the CIA or parts of the CIA and perhaps other agencies. That part is harder to show.

With the bringing down of Senator McCarthy, the Media, dominated by Progressives since the creation of the Federal Communication Commision (created and staffed during the FDR administration) and the strict censorship during WWII, found their power over politicians was enormous.


10 posted on 04/09/2026 5:51:50 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nixon was railroaded. It set the tone for the RATs ever since. Make something up then use the Media to make it stick. It has become so awful that even after Trump leaves office they want to continue going after him.


11 posted on 04/09/2026 5:56:51 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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Silliest movie ever made. Fantasy land...


12 posted on 04/09/2026 6:03:39 AM PDT by basalt
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To: marktwain

Nixon had a 73% approval when they started going after him. Made a hero out of Mark Felt/deep throat...who committed felony after felony. Ever since they got Nixon, they think they can shape public opinion and do it to anybody they want too. Then they ran into Trump and he had money and he fought back. Theyve lost their minds ever since 2015....


13 posted on 04/09/2026 6:07:59 AM PDT by basalt
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he mainly resigned because of his health...many wanted him to fight on. THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE the he himself knew about any of the so called crimes. Ehrlchman and Haldeman both maintained that even after they were concivted and did time.


14 posted on 04/09/2026 6:13:56 AM PDT by basalt
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To: Kid Shelleen

https://www.watergate.com/ Can’t have a discussion about Watergate without mentioning the great book Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. A lot of it can be read at the above link including Chapter 23 which delves into the relationship between Woodward and Haig.....


15 posted on 04/09/2026 6:23:10 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (B)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Not the best movie centered on journalism. I would rate His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell ahead of All the President's Men. More realistic and funnier.
16 posted on 04/09/2026 7:05:32 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kid Shelleen

Firstly the journalists were actually CIA Non Government workers. And second, there are no national journalists anymore. Those rooms of people on the phone with typewriters are gone. Every journalist is really a propagandist working for someone. Maybe our government maybe someone else’s. Maybe an industry or a party. There are no honest straight, follow the story journalists. There is no money in that. But there is huge money in propaganda.


17 posted on 04/09/2026 7:24:50 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Verginius Rufus

One of my favorite movies...


18 posted on 04/09/2026 7:51:28 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I thought Absence of Malice was very underrated.

"We're going downstairs to talk to a grand jury."

19 posted on 04/09/2026 8:50:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If I leave here, it’s because I’m tired of arguing with geriatric parrots wearing MAGA hats.)
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To: marktwain; Kid Shelleen

.....Watergate was a Media coup. The Media, lead by the Washington Post, showed they had the power to unseat a popular president who was elected in a landslide......

You’re right!

Nixon was a good president who was undone by his mistakes related to the “Watergate” burglary, and by a gang of misguided journalists.


20 posted on 04/09/2026 10:48:23 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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