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...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
...conduct of the press after Woodward and Bernstein could only help Nixon's side of the argument. Watergate beatified the press; it gave reporters a model and an ambition. It made them zealous, fierce to expose, hungry to bring back trophies. A certain bloodlust went through the profession. Public officials, even the most obscure, knew that young reporters would go over their lives like flesh-eating birds. That knowledge has served to deplete the ranks of men and women willing to serve in government. Watergate helped to destroy the boundary between public and private life. Says University of Chicago...
...Richard Bernstein Little, Brown; 260 pages...
While Eliot House's "elite" reputation may have existed prior to Finley's term as master, he did little to refute the image. He held "Grand Dinners" for Eliot students with guests such as T.S. Eliot, Leonard Bernstein, and notables from The New York Times, which his father edited from 1920 to 1940. Though he never followed his father's path into journalism, Finley edited. The Advocate during his senior year at Harvard and probably gained at least a taste for elitism as a member of several clubs, including the A D the Phoenix S.K., and the Hasty Pudding...
Newsweek printed the column without demurrer. Said Bernstein: "He [Friedman] felt strongly about it. He has a column. He was entitled. But we do not think we were wrong: the data demonstrated that Reagan policy so far was increasing the number of people below the poverty line...