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...many White Houses to cover. Fortunately, Richard Nixon's trips to Key Biscayne, Fla., and San Clemente, Calif., are announced in advance, and provision is made for correspondents to bring along their families (at their own expense, of course) on the chartered press plane. When the newsmen reach their sunny destinations, reports Fischer, "The press lodgings are usually splendid and spacious, but they are many miles from either of the presidential residences...
Hardly had the newsmen scrambled to the Western White House compound when the President appeared and announced, with a quiver in his voice, that his old friend Bill Rogers had resigned as Secretary of State and that Henry Kissinger was being named to replace him. Normally, such news would have prompted numerous follow-up questions. This time, having been deprived of presidential give-and-take for so long, the reporters ignored Nixon's announcement and zeroed in on stories that they thought he had been avoiding. Of 20 questions put to the President -some with a hostility that bordered...
...themselves. In mid-September, a step will be taken to change all that. Under a six-month grant from Public Citizen, one of Ralph Nader's organizations, the newly formed Capitol Hill News Service will set five reporters on the trails of 40 to 50 preselected Congressmen. The newsmen will do investigative and feature coverage on the legislators, as well as stories on their routine activities and votes. At first their files will be sent free to newspapers and broadcast stations in each Congressman's district; after a trial period, the news service will charge for the stories...
What is the actual state of the American press? Is it in fact the foe of privilege and entrenched power that it claims to be? A closer look at Watergate belies that claim. Despite recent implications to the contrary, hundreds of probing, aggressive newsmen working night and day to unearth the truth was not the story of Watergate. More accurately, two reporters--Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post--kept up through last winter the pressure which eventually helped blow the case wide open. The rest of the press did not get involved until Nixon was already reeling...
...fact, most of the good reporting of the past few years has been done by only a handful of people. Hordes of newsmen descended upon Vietnam in the early 1960s as American involvement deepened, but only one of them--David Halberstam, then with the New York Times--had the courage to report that a chasm lay between the truth and the Pentagon's reported story...