Bob Woodward

“I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate, I’m proud.” Pulitzer prize winning investigation and reporting conducted by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward into the Watergate scandal revealed the first of possibly many government conspiracies. it's 1972 and living in America isn't as great as it used to be. The war in Vietnam is still going on the spread of communism is threatening as ever and inflation is making prices go up for basically the first time since World War II and America had a pretty good president. Richard Nixon seemed determined to get things done even in the situation he was in. He created a plan for withdrawing troops from Vietnam,…

In the 1976 film, All the President’s Men , Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein find themselves investigating a seemingly routine story, the break in at the DNC office. However, in their pursuit of the facts, the two reporters discover a massive republican cover up, leading all the way to President Richard Nixon. Alan Pakula, director of All the President’s Men , isolates and focuses on Woodward and Bernstein’s investigation to illustrate: the importance of investigative…

1976 as a political film based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. It follows two journalists for The Washington Post in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. The film opens with the police discovering five burglars inside the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate complex. The following morning, thinking that the story will be of little importance, The Washington Post assigns coverage of the story to a new reporter named Bob Woodward. He discovers that the…

Now that you know about how the media informs the public we will move on to how the media exposes government corruption or controversies and how the government reacts to the exposure of these controversies by inspecting the intense scandal Watergate, which occurred under Richard Nixon’s administration. Details of how this scandal happen are bizarre, first, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the hotel Watergate who was caught and was carrying thirty-five hundred…

In All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were forced to make several ethical decisions because of the nature of the story they were investigating and reporting. Some of those ethical decisions can be justified, while some cannot. There were multiple instances in the movie where they either met or didn't meet the four ethical principles established by the SPJ Code of Ethics, those being: Seek Truth and Report it, Minimize Harm, Act Independently, and Be Accountable and…

President's Men revolves around the scandal at Watergate, following Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on their quest to discover who was really behind the entire ordeal. After the mysterious break-in at the National Democratic Committee, these two young reporters quickly become obsessed…

All the President’s Men is a 1976 political motion picture directed by Alan J. Pakula. William Goldman wrote the screenplay for the film that is based on the 1974 book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that is also named All the President’s Men (Perkins). In addition, the authors are the two journalists that handled the investigation of the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein. All the President’s…

All the President’s Men, an investigative, nonfiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, details the investigation into the Watergate scandal of the 1970s caused by President Richard Nixon and his team. By detailing the investigation of a burglary, recounting the discovery of a high-profile scandal, and revealing the importance of both anonymous and credited sources, Woodward and Bernstein analyze the factors that were necessary in exposing President Nixon’s part in the Watergate scandal.…

not a crook by today’s standards”. Almost all the voters believed him and Richard Nixon was re-elected as president.After some time, it was revealed that Nixon was not being truthful. For instance, he arranged to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to the burglars in order to keep them from confessing. After, President Nixon and his assistants devised a plan to make the CIA keep the FBI from investigating the crime.At the urging of Nixon’s assistants, five of the seven arrested spies pleaded…

“All the President’s Men,” by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward tells the story of Watergate and how the events transpired, and how Woodward and Bernstein acted as journalists to present one of the most compelling cases of reporting. While this book was not only informative from a historical perspective but also in learning about journalistic standpoint. The book starts by introducing the two men and addressing some of the early speculation about what happened at Watergate. Then, as Woodward…