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With all the headlines about “fake news,” the liberal media elite don’t have a perfect track record, either. Reporter Jayson Blair concocted stories for the New York Times back in 2003, while Stephen Glass fabricated numerous pieces for The New Republic in the late 1990s. The most notorious scam of this sort was the 1980 front-page Washington Post article by reporter Janet Cooke headlined “Jimmy’s World: 8-Year-Old Heroin Addict Lives for a Fix.”

As publisher of The Washington Post—and a Watergate legend—the late Katharine Graham drew the highest and mightiest to Mohu, her 218-acre Martha's Vineyard summer estate. In an adaptation from her new memoir, MADELEINE BLAIS, an island neighbor, recalls the delights and dilemmas (how to compete with Princess Diana's hostess gift or match the culinary skills of a private French chef?) of her annual rendezvous with Graham

A police officer in Troy, New York, masqueraded as a local TV cameraman to defuse a hostage situation. It worked. But not without harm.

Some reporters can build a career around their own personal brands. But doing great work requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who dont get bylines. Barry Sussman — the Watergate journalist named neither "Woodward" nor "Bernstein" — was one.

He worked closely with the reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in covering the break-in and the subsequent scandal that doomed Richard Nixon.

Deep Throat - or, as Im sure his family prefers to refer to him, former FBI associate director W. Mark Felt - was a friend of legendary journalist Bob ...

"All the President's Men" is truer to the craft of journalism than to the art of storytelling, and that's its problem. The movie is as accurate about the processes used by investigative reporters as we have any right to expect, and yet process finally overwhelms narrative -- we're adrift in a sea of names, dates, telephone numbers, coincidences, lucky breaks, false leads, dogged footwork, denials, evasions, and sometimes even the truth. Just such thousands of details led up...

21/07/2021 01:30 El descubrimiento de secretos con proyección pública ha hecho cambiar el curso de la historia. En enero de 1917, los servicios secretos británicos, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, descodificaron un telegrama que Arthur Zimmermann, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores alemán, había enviado al presidente mexicano, a través de la embajada de Berlín en Washington, proponiendo una alianza militar en el caso de que Estados Unidos entrara en guerra. Los alemanes ofrecían secretamen...

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