<em>Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate</em>
Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate

Shadow of Watergate

June 15, 2007

35 years ago, five men were caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel. The burglary would give Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the story of a lifetime, and help change the role of the press. Alicia Shepard, author of a new book on Watergate, discusses the fact & fiction of "Woodstein."

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Posted by: mr hudler June 17, 2007 - 11:17PM

Alicia Shepard made an excellent point comparing the Wiretapping story to Watergate. Media today could not "break" a Watergate. That seems to be the real lesson of Watergate..

http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/06-07-05/discussion.cgi.54.html

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