You’d think editors at the Washington Postmight have turned to statements by its Watergate-era principals before allowing a mythical claim about the scandal to appear in a book review that was published today.
The claim appears in a predictably favorable critique of Carl Bernstein’s ChasingHistory, a memoir about his early days in journalism.
The book, the Post’s review notes, “doesn’t mention Watergate. The occasional references to [President] Richard Nixon have nothing to do with the scandal that Bernstein” reported on with Bob Woodward for the Post in the early 1970s.
“Bernstein has no interest in retelling an already well-known tale,” the review assures us. “Instead of the staccato just-the-facts brag you might expect from an investigative reporter whosework brought down a president, ‘Chasing History’ is a lovingly detailed memoir composed in a humble register.”
Media Myth Alert is only faintly interested in a memoir by
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