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avebury

(10,952 posts) Tue Apr 4, 2017, 02:10 PM Apr 2017

All The President's Men

I try to be a good pet parent and walk my furbaby at least twice a day. I take advantage of the time to listen to audiobooks as walking a Chihuahua is not a fast paced activity. My current listen is All The President's Men. I can't help but think of the times that we live in and really wish that there were a 21st Century version of Woodward and Bernstein chasing down the Russia story and getting the goods on Trump and all his minions. I know that Joy and Rachel are doing the best the can but the journalism that existed in the early 70s just doesn't exist today.

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All The President's Men (Original Post) avebury Apr 2017 OP

For sure. Jarqui Apr 2017 #1

Jarqui

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1. For sure.

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Tue Apr 4, 2017, 02:19 PM

Apr 2017

It's not just the journalism that existed back then. It is the trust that went along with it.

A lot more people trusted Walter Cronkite back then than trust virtually anyone in news today. A lot more folks had more faith in 60 minutes, the Washington Post or the NY Times back then.

A bunch of reporters could do some great journalism this week. But it will take many years before that trust is regained - if ever. And that trust went a long way towards how people conducted themselves. WaPo has done some good articles lately on Trump but earlier during 2016, I thought they stooped about as low as I'd ever seen them during the primaries. I'll never trust them the same way again after that.

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