The takeaways from “All The President's Men”, that landmark account of investigative journalismIn Franz Kafka’s The Trial, a young man is arrested one morning and sent to the gallows without ever knowing the crime. All The President’s Men describes the court scene clinically. McCord was the security coordinator of the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP). As the reporters began to be stonewalled, they were unaware that the Post was up against a huge cover-up being orchestrated by the White House. In today’s world of Pegasus, that’s the telling, if sobering, message from the media’s unravelling of the Watergate scandal.

Source: The Hindu July 21, 2021 13:52 UTC