The Water Gate in the Media

By 19 60, you've got televisions in 50 million households. And people who are not used to this kind of imagery being projected at them, especially on a repetitive basis, night after night. The credibility and the idea of objectivity in media has to do with the emergence of television. It's always funny when you go back to like, world war one propaganda, and you look at it, and it is just so crude and over the top. But comeing out of world war too, our institutions werea, a and all time high,. Just as far as believing and having faith in the government and our basic institutions was really, really high.