Hollywood storytelling at its finest. The most important line in the movie is fiction. Reporter Bob Woodward has a high-level government source whom he meets with in an underground parking garage. And they filled it with paper and trash shipped in from the actual newsroom in DC, all in the name of accuracy. But this is window dressing. This is deep throat.
A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.