Saturday, January 16, 2016

Hmm …

 Paul Davis On Crime: Journalism In the Movies.

The obvious comparison is All the President’s Men, the revered 1976 account of the Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal, its reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Another stellar tale of gross wrongdoing the world would otherwise have never known about, Spotlight is the kind of film about journalism that journalists enjoy; it’s also the bookies’ favourite to win Best Picture at next month’s Oscars.
The writer should check this out: A media myth eruption: WaPo, Watergate, and Nixon’s fall.

Take-away quote:

(More coarsely, Woodward himself has declared: “To say the press brought down Nixon, that’s horseshit.”)

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