Word: woodwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NONFICTION 1-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward...
...becomes even more controversial and complex when a case is before a grand jury or about to be presented to one. Most lawyers are horrified by the press's intrusion on grand jury privacy. Jack Anderson published transcripts of some of the testimony given to the Watergate grand jurors. Woodward and Bernstein, desperate for new information when other sources went dry for a while, approached members of the same jury, attempting to get them to violate their oath of secrecy...
Even the Post, which performed outstandingly throughout, logically viewed the break-in as a local event. The paper assigned two unknowns who were not veteran sleuths or national political reporters and kept them on the story even as it grew. Bernstein, then 28, had been covering Virginia politics. Woodward, 29, an enrolled Republican who had been with the paper only nine months, was reporting on unsanitary restaurants and petty police graft. More experienced investigators like Sandy Smith of TIME, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, and James Polk of the Washington Star...
Many newspapers failed even to do that. Some clients of the Los Angeles Times/ Washington Post news service simply failed to run the early Woodward-Bernstein stories, or else buried them. The New York Times, though it did better than most, seemed sluggish. National Editor David Jones recalls: "It was a failure of editing judgment in our Washington bureau and on the national news desk in New York. We didn't perceive early enough the potential ramifications
...there were some. A serious Washington Post blunder occurred in October 1972. Immediately after the Los Angeles Times interview with Alfred Baldwin, Woodward and Bernstein came back with a story naming three men as recipients of the phone-tap transcripts that Baldwin had delivered to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. The names were picked up by other publications, but it turned out that the Post reporters had grabbed some raw, garbled FBI data. "The decision to rush into print was a mistake," Woodward and Bernstein wrote later...