Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernstein added that there has been "an unfortunate growth in the area of gossip and celebrity journalism...reporting is really the last priority for the networks...
...Bernstein characterized reporting as "the best obtainable version of the truth," and he said, "there wasn't anything exotic about the Watergate reporting. To get to the truth you have to knock on a lot of doors...
...there is a lot more knocking on doors these days, I'm not aware of it," Bernstein added...
...Bernstein criticized the performance of the press during the Reagan years, saying journalists allowed the president to decide the news agenda rather than "deciding for ourselves what the real news stories were...
...addition to Bernstein, other participants in last night's discussion included James St. Clair, Nixon's former special counsel; James S. Doyle, former special assistant to the Watergate independent prosecutors; and Murrow Professor of the Press and Public Policy Marvin Kalb...