the idiot culture - Carl Bernstein

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Reflections of post-WafteriEate journalism.

THE IDIOT CULTURE By Carl Bernstein

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t is now nearly a generation since the drama that began with the Watergate break-in and ended with the resignation of Richard Nixon, a fuU twenty years in which the American press has been engaged in a strange frenzy of self-congratulation and defensiveness about its performance in that afiair and afterward. The self