The heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate is one of those hardy media-driven myths to have produced its own spinoff or subsidiary myth.
The heroic-journalist myth has it that the investigative reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Postexposed the Watergate scandal and forced President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
But as I point out in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, not even the Post buys that interpretation. Plus, I note in debunking the myth:
“The heroic-journalist interpretation minimizes the far more decisive forces that unraveled the scandal and forced Nixon from office.”
Those forces included special Watergate prosecutors, federal judges, bipartisan panels of both houses of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the Justice Department and the FBI.
To explain Watergate through the lens of the heroic-journalist, I write in Getting It Wrong, is to short-change…
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Oct 03, 2017 @ 13:14:38
No evidence to back up his assertions. ‘Watergate’ didn’t bring Nixon down but it played a very important part. One might even say it drove congress
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