A dozen years ago, just after Watergate’s famous anonymous source, “Deep Throat,” had outed himself, the WashingtonPost’s ombudsman, Michael Getler, offered a timeless reminder about Watergate and the forces that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency in 1974.
“Ultimately,” Getler wrote in his column, “it was not The Post, but the FBI, a Congress acting in bipartisan fashion and the courts that brought down the Nixon administration.”
Nixon quits: Not the Post’s doing
Now, one of Getler’s distant successors at the Post, media columnist Margaret Sullivan, has returned to the lessons of Watergate and in doing so embraced the heroic-journalist trope that the Post and its then-young reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were crucial to bringing down Nixon’s corrupt presidency.
Writing in the latest number of Columbia Journalism Review, Sullivan asserts that Woodward and Bernstein “uncovered the Nixon administration’s crimes and the…
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