Once upon a time, there really were legendary reporters. The closest we’ve gotten in the last 50 years is Woodward and Bernstein, and even they gave up long ago.
Today if whistle blowers go to the press they would be outed!!! EVEN if we had patriots inside the government that wanted to report the corruption they have NO WHERE to go the press doesn’t give a DAMN unless of course it is a republican!!! The press is complaisant with the corruption, Nixon was Mother Theresa compared to Clinton and the press could CARE LESS!!!!
Woodward and Bernstein remind me of Simon and Garfunkel. One made it long-term, the other didn’t....quite. Woodward has become the “official” spokesman for the Establishment version of events and personages in politics for the last 40 plus years. He is Wa Po. I don’t expect anything of interest from him, ever.
No, there have never been legendary reporters. These people don’t MAKE history; they only tell it. And for decades now, since the Murrows and Cronkites and Woodwards and Bernsteins became players instead of observers, they don’t even tell the story as often as they tell lies about it.
I have more respect for a bus station hooker than any reporter on earth.