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...Throat had been, for the past 33 years, the most tantalizing of those questions--in part because he placed himself at risk to bring down a corrupt government, in part because of the romantically noirish way he was portrayed in All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book about how they got their big Watergate story and, more significantly, in the movie retelling of their exploits...
...public memory, Watergate is generally summed up like this: the Post and its inseparable reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought down President Richard Nixon by unraveling the Administration's cover-up of political espionage in a thrilling journalistic chase led by the spectral figure known as Deep Throat. But if the secret of his identity, held fast by four men for 33 years, is no more, there is still mystery in the nature and meaning of his role in Watergate. Was Deep Throat a villain or a hero, driven by base motives or noble ones...
...raise objections to the Koran allegation. The Defense Department's silence, however, didn't amount to confirmation. "There's a famous scene in the book All the President's Men," says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and former chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek. "Bernstein says to a source, 'If I count to whatever, and you stay on the phone and don't say anything, then I know the story is right.' Well, that's the story Woodward and Bernstein got wrong in Watergate...
...news organization that the State Department accuses of having a "clear pattern of false and inflammatory reporting" that endangers the lives of Americans, particularly U.S. personnel in Iraq. "There is no baggage heavier than anything that is related to 9/11," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York City. "Advertisers would be very careful in figuring out what the implications are to their product." Says Steve Tatham, author of a forthcoming book on Arab media reporting from Iraq: "People associate al-Jazeera with anti-Western sentiment." It doesn't help things that al-Jazeera...
...play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...