Woodward and Bernstein
Exposed Nixon's crimes
Woodward and Bernstein refers to the investigative journalism team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting for the Washington Post exposed the Watergate scandal and contributed to President Nixon's resignation in 1974.
The names have become shorthand for tenacious investigative journalism that uncovers government wrongdoing: The story needs a Woodward and Bernstein to dig into it.
- Watergate1970s political crisis
- Nixon administration1969-1974 executive branch
- White HouseOfficial presidential residence
- political scandalPublic official's exposed wrongdoing
- journalistsNews gatherers and writers
investigative journalism · Washington Post · Deep Throat · investigation · scandal · reporters · exposé · whistleblower · cover-up · smoking gun · newsroom · front page · sources · Pulitzer · typewriters · corruption · tapes · resignation
Woodward and Bernsteinpropagandists
Spreaders of biased messaging
state media · Pravda · press secretaries · spin doctors · embedded reporters
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