Watergate - The Heroic Journalist Interpretation

It's a very neat and tidy shorthand for explaining the scandal. And another actor in explaining why this heroic journalist interpretation lives on is that it is reassuring to contemporary journalists who are going through tough times. It tells them, this interpretation of watergate, the gravest political scandal, certainly, of the twentieth century, tells them that journalists can be decisive factors,. In american society, in American politics. These are three of the factors why this trope, this interpretation, lives on.