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  • "Trust Me" Journalism in Newsweek and Watergate; No Proof Mark Felt is Deep Throat

    06/06/2005 3:33:45 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 16 replies · 990+ views
    A.I.M.ORG ^ | JUNE 6, 2005 | ANNE TYRRELL
    The Washington Post's media reporter, Howard Kurtz, says that a lesson of Watergate is the "burning need for original reporting" on major issues of public importance. But where is the original reporting on whether former FBI official Mark Felt is really Deep Throat? "The 'trust me' journalism that caused Muslim riots in the Newsweek Koran case is being accepted by the major media with regard to the naming of Deep Throat," noted Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid. "Yet there is no independent evidence that Felt, who repeatedly denied being Deep Throat and now suffers from severe memory problems, was...