Watergate Scandal

Watergate scandal

Watergate scandal is one of the most disgraceful political scandals in the history of the United States, which have long term impact on the history of the United States and the whole international press. In the 1972 presidential election, in order to intelligence made ​​within the Democratic Party campaign strategy, June 17, 1972, broke into the Watergate building in Washington, headed by Republican Nixon campaign chief security adviser James McCord (James W. McCord, Jr.) 5Democratic National Committee office, bugging, and videotaping the relevant documents, were arrested at the scene. The two reporters of the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein published a series of follow-up reports on the whole event. It is precisely because they reported insider information to expose the link between the White House and the Watergate, which eventually prompted the resignation of Richard Nixon.

Davis’s (1995) report found the following: In July that year, the Supreme Court orders Nixon to turn over the taps relating to the scandal. In the event of Watergate affair, the mass media of recording as the tap clearly record the criminal evidence. If there were no recording about that, the president Nixon would not loose his position of president. Therefore, in my opinion, the mass media has great impact on the Watergate scandal.

According to Feldstein (2004), “ I believe that the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein represents a milestone of American journalism." Washington Post report the whole process during the Watergate affair for the author would considers why journalism would effect on the affair. As for me, I consider that newspaper can expose all kind of truth, including the secret of president for the whole society. Meanwhile, I think this is the real freedom of media in the history.

as we know it today and I think they did a great job in showing the American people the truth.

Reference

Matthew Davis. (1995). The scandal that...