Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131027:13:38:00
Pretty strong and even the president cannot defy it. and ultimately chose not to. but it did represent something very big, which was the press had been fairly supine for years and years and years. and 1960s, vietnam and the credibility gap and the perception that the government was lying to the people, the press got a lot friskier and a lot more aggressive. and really nixon ran into a new phenomenon, a hyperaggressive press corps. it was the washington post, woodward and bernstein, press was slow to catch up. but when they caught up, they caught up with a vengeance and there was a lynch mob ou...