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...reason for showing All The President's Men was practical. I wanted my students to see the inside of a working newsroom, albeit one with 1970s office furniture. And the movie offers plenty of little lessons for journalists: how "Woodstein" made their reputation pursuing a story that no one else wanted; the necessity and risk of using unnamed sources; and the many different ways of asking the same question...
...high and low, so too were his apparent motives for talking to Woodward in the first place. After all, Felt was a by-the-book G-man, a ramrod-straight protege of J. Edgar Hoover's who made the FBI his life. In their book, Woodstein, as the Post duo came to be called, portrayed their source as a contradictory character who liked gossip and drink and had grown fiercely disillusioned by the "switchblade mentality" of the Nixon White House. But in a long Washington Post piece last week, presumably from his upcoming book, Woodward says, "With a story...
...reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn in for his, hmm, second term while the Woodstein typewriter clacked at his door...
...shrugs off any glorification of his approach, or his mastery of the Woodstein technique. "Investigative reporting is a stupid term," he says definitively. "Decent reporting is by definition investigative." For Shawcross, Sideshow was an extension of his earlier days on the Times' insight team...
...fact that newspapers are money-making ventures must be considered in light of the special position to which they have been relegated in the United States. Newspapers have a history of taking editorial positions with righteous indignation. There is a feeling among journalists--especially in the post-Woodstein era--that they have a responsibility to ferret out malfeasance and expose iniquity. This strident posturing has had an effect. Despite the grumblings of the public, newspapers are widely respected, or at least read. The press is protected, more or less, by the First Amendment, which states that Congress may make...