Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woodward, reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of a series of articles which uncovered the Watergate break-in, said yesterday that Watergate marked the first time the American public had "to accept the inconceivable...
American newspapers had never reported that the White House was corrupt, Woodward said at a Mather House Journalists Seminar. "People believed before that the White House was the fountain of truth," he said...
...Woodward also said yesterday that Post reporting indirectly contributed to the decision of Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) to form the Senate Watergate Committee...
Kraft was criticizing the coverage of the Watergate grand jury's confidential report to Judge John Sirica, which was handed up along with the indictments. Though his column did not offer examples, he said later that he was thinking of stories by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, James Naughton of the New York Times, Newsweek and CBS. The network had speculated-erroneously, as it turned out-on the number of people who were about to be named as defendants and coconspirators. The three publications, and others as well, discussed the grand jury's deliberations...
...best that the paper can offer on Watergate is a hearsay account of the forthcoming book by Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the headline is ominous ("Another time bomb ticking away under the White House"), but the text offers no dynamite ("Insiders hint that Bernstein and Woodward make no new startling disclosures in their book...