Follow the leader: in reporting on weapons of mass destruction, the media too often take their cues from the president.(First Person)

American Journalism Review,  April, 2004  by Moeller, Susan D.

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I showed "All the President's Men" in my journalism ethics class the other day, and the lesson that most students took away from the movie and the related Watergate case study was that good journalism is another name for dogged persistence, that ferreting out the facts is the essential journalistic challenge. There is that scene, in the beginning of the movie, where Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein grabs Robert Redford/Bob Woodward's copy to rewrite it--because Woodward garbled his prose and buried the lead.

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