Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal was known as one of the most wide spread political corruptions revealed in American history. Only new reporters and courageous newspapers covered the piece about this shocking abuse of power.
The section More than a Third-Rate Burglary goes into depth on how being the president in a scandal was unheard of, and the Watergate scandal that had burglary and theft stories circling was too much for the White House. Flushing Out the Evidence was about Woodward and Bernstein who got there first break by exposing the address books in the case. Pushing the Limits of Investigative Reporting was about the young reporters teaming up and becoming a force of journalism. This case would have a lot of new coming journalists making their mark in the industry. The section Standing Firm was about the dates of June 1972 to 1973, the workers and journalists on the Watergate situation, and how the 15th Street in Washington, D.C. is where the committed journalism took place. The White House Collapses is fairly simple in the way that it talks about Nixon being accused of destroying the evidence of his knowledge of the criminals breaking in.
The last section was titled Reporters as All-American Heroes because there were many journalists like Woodstein who were built on this case because they brought the information to the public. If I had lived in this era, I would also want the information that they, along with a lot of other reporters brought.
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