The Media's Role in Watergate

A detailed Summary of The Media's Role in Watergate

In the American Democracy it is vital for our right to freedom of press to be put into full

throttle. Without the press, the society would be clueless and blind of Washington's dealings and

business. The press informs the public, for better or worse, about what really goes on in

Washington. But during the Watergate Scandal, the press coverage of the scandal demonstrated

some of the best and the worst aspects of the way the American press covers the presidency.

Richard Nixon despised the press. From the days when he was Vice President and

Governor, he had no trust for the press. Even when he used the press for his advantage to expose,

what he believed to be, Communist influences in America, he feared the press. Though Nixon had

won the endorsement of many newspapers during the 1960 Presidential Campaign, Nixon still

thought ill of the press and believed them to be unfair to him. Nixon became even more bitter in

1962 after he lost the election to be governor of California. Nixon bitterly

public's eyes. After Watergate, the press vowed to be more wary in the future. That legacy of

lack of covering different kinds of stories, as opposed to the same type of story time after time.

more proof. Maybe it was one of the failures of the American Press: a lack of investigative zeal

Suspicion would hang over the presidents that followed Nixon.

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