Monday, June 06, 2005
Lessons From Watergate
David Brooks had an interesting take the whole Watergate, revelation of 'Deep Throat' thing in yesterdays NYTimes.
For that is the purpose of Watergate in today's culture. It isn't about Nixon and the cover-up anymore. It's about Woodward and Bernstein. Watergate has become a modern Horatio Alger story, a real-life fairy tale, an inspiring ode for mediacentric college types - about the two young men who found exciting and challenging jobs, who slew the dragon, who became rich and famous by doing good and who were played by Redford and Hoffman in the movie version.That paragraph speaks whole volumes.
