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...Bernstein and his colleague, Bob Woodward, the two reporters cited in the 1973 Pulitzer Prize given to The Post for its Watergate coverage, addressed a capacity crowd at Jordan Hall in Boston for the Ford Hall Forum public lecture series...
Though Woodward said he believed the Post reporters' investigations had not interfered with individual liberties, Bernstein said that the lines of propriety are so fine that "unfortunately there are times when we overstep our bounds and cross over somebody's privacy...
...Bernstein spoke out strongly against administration charges that the Post has used hearsay evidence and guilt by association in order to "convict" accused wrong-doers before they have gone to trial...
...Bernstein said that because "we have had four years of hearsay" in news coming out of the White House, the media often has no choice but to report news items which might be considered hearsay if weighed in a courtroom...
...duties of the press are not the same as the duties of the court," Bernstein said, because the court's responsibility is "judicial" while the press need only be "judicious." The job of the press is to bring the most important facts to the attention of the public, he said...