Word: supersleuth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page opinion, Judge George MacKinnon cited testimony presented at the trial that some Post employees "deliberately slanted, rejected and ignored evidence contrary to the false premise of the story." In addition, he singled out Bob Woodward, the supersleuth of Watergate, who helped oversee the story. "A reasonable inference is that Woodward, as editor, wanted from his reporters the same kind of stories on which he built his own reputation: high- impact investigative stories of wrongdoing," wrote MacKinnon. "Regardless of whether one chooses to characterize this policy as conducive to . . . 'sophisticated muckraking,' it certainly is relevant to the inquiry of whether...