Today's Scandals Play Out in Many More Media

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › December 28, 2008

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WASHINGTON - The recent death of W. Mark Felt - Bob Woodward's secret source, indelibly dubbed "Deep Throat," who played such a crucial role in The Washington Post's Watergate reporting - coincided with the appearance of Richard M. Nixon, as played by Frank Langella, on local movie screens. As I watched Langella's Nixon being interrogated about the conspiracy and cover-up by Michael Sheen's David Frost in "Frost/Nixon," I relived strong memories. And Felt's death raised the inevitable question: Could the kind of reporting that Woodward and Carl Bernstein pulled off be done today, more than three decades later, in the age of the Internet?

For many reasons, I believe it could. But it would probably play out quite differently.

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Today's Scandals Play Out in Many More Media

There are still whistle-blowers like Felt in government today - probably many more than there were back then. They are encouraged by various public employees' organizations and protected by whistle- blowers' legislation enacted after Watergate. And th...

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