The Seeds of Mistrust

July 18, 2003

For many years, the government and the media have regarded each other with mutual distrust. But the antagonism reached a new high with the Watergate scandal, and many say that the wounded relationship has never really recovered. Brooke brings us back in time to the early 1970's, to the years in which the press and the executive branch went mano a mano in full view of the entire country.


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