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Thus the atmosphere was already charged?and the Nixon Administration had for years been using the press as a scapegoat???when reporters began investigating the five bunglers who burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. That crime detonated the nation's greatest scandal and journalism's longest-running political story. Yet the tocsin sounded initially by the overwhelming majority of news organizations was neither sullen nor loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COYER STORY: COVERING WATERGATE: SUCCESS AND BACKLASH | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

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