Opinion: Democracy Running Low On Ink
Posted: 6/15/2012 | By: Martin McKenzie-Murray | The Sydney Morning Herald
FORTY years ago, five men in business suits were arrested burgling
the Watergate building in Washington DC, the site of the Democratic
National Committee's headquarters. What was initially dismissed as a
"third-rate burglary" by the White House press secretary would provide
the thread for exposing a thoroughly criminalized White House, led by
the paranoid delusions of its very strange 37th president, Richard
Nixon.
The bungled burglary may have been left as just that but for the now-fabled tenacity of two young Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
The bungled burglary may have been left as just that but for the now-fabled tenacity of two young Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.