Pardon my ignorance, but what do people do in a "j-lab"? Adverb fusion? Primary source distillation? The physics of being a shitty White House correspondent?
"Deliberate food"? I've taught ESL and remedial composition and I've still never seen anything like that. If I had any musical skills I might choose that for a band name.
I am also baffled about this eating thing (not that there's anything wrong with that). Aren't they supposed to be drawing down a bottle of rye while they're banging out copy?
wait, you're not allowed to eat in the j-labs? haha what a bunch of suckers, not only did we eat in some other computer labs i can think of but dudes would openly read porn. i mean, really, why even bother going to the j-school when you think about it in this light.
Let's not forget Felt ordered raids on suspected radicals without search warrantsl. I'm glad he helped Woodward and Bernstein out, but the man was no saint.
Could have used a lot more like you over these last ten years or so, heaven knows...
Equal measure guts, smarts, and integrity is a hard combo to come by, although I guess the real legacy of Watergate is how the system amended itself to make successfully pulling an emergency break that much harder... if not impossible.
Ryan, thanks for the thoughtful note (at 2 a.m. yet!) about the changes in journalism -- not all for the better -- since Watergate. Unfortunately, the two-source rule died long before Mark Felt.
(You could call that Sourcegate, but then we'd have to suggest the practice of adding "-gate" to every minor misdeed be buried along with Deep Throat.)
@Weegee's bored: Yeah, Nixon makes Bush/Cheney look like footnotes in the annals of state-sponsored killing. Vietnamese and Cambodian dead that Nixon and Kissinger bear responsibility for easily number in the millions, with 50,000 Americans.
Watergate wasn't directly about the war, but there's a clear line from the war to Watergate.
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I am also baffled about this eating thing (not that there's anything wrong with that). Aren't they supposed to be drawing down a bottle of rye while they're banging out copy?
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Oh, and Gay Talese...that guy was a journalist, right?
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Could have used a lot more like you over these last ten years or so, heaven knows...
Equal measure guts, smarts, and integrity is a hard combo to come by, although I guess the real legacy of Watergate is how the system amended itself to make successfully pulling an emergency break that much harder... if not impossible.
Just ask Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer.
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(You could call that Sourcegate, but then we'd have to suggest the practice of adding "-gate" to every minor misdeed be buried along with Deep Throat.)
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(I'd like to dedicate this conspiracy theory to Mark Felt.)
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Watergate wasn't directly about the war, but there's a clear line from the war to Watergate.
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DEATH BE-CUMS DEEP THROAT