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...Palestinian writers whom I've been training to be journalists here in Damascus, when I recently held a screening of All the President's Men - the Watergate movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. By secretive Syrian standards, the conditions under which the crusading journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein worked seem impossibly ideal. The fact that there was a direct phone number to the White House switchboard filled my students with awe. So did the fact that dialing 411 actually led to a directory inquiries operator who actually divulged a working phone number. And the idea that an investigative...
...that I was trying to encourage the Woodward and Bernstein model of muckraking in a land with no First Amendment and no Bill of Rights. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists rated Syria ninth on its list of the ten most censored countries. And many in Lebanon blame Syria for the assassination of Lebanese journalists. Nevertheless, there is a fledgling private press in Syria, and although local reporters learn to steer clear of sensitive subjects, there is still room for a limited form of real journalism. Syria Today, the independent English-language magazine where I teach, has published articles...
...Bernstein: "I think what Bob means is that ordinarily, what was the procedure...
...sure how much of this sunk in with my students. One of their main concerns was that Woodward and Bernstein rarely stopped to eat. (My guys couldn't even sit through the whole film without a cigarette break.) But I was surprised by how they intuitively understood the political background behind the Watergate investigation. Not that many had heard of Watergate or the Nixon tapes, or understood the job of the Attorney General. What they understood, very clearly, was that the President of the United States had used the FBI and the CIA to spy on the opposition and stay...
Sanders I. Bernstein ’10, a Crimson arts comper, lives in Pennypacker Hall...