Peter Oborne contrasts the free-press cause celebre that arose after the British phone-hacking scandal to the silence and hostility engulfing the far more consequential case of the WikiLeaks publisher.
Tag: Watergate Scandal
The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
The CIA’s Role in Watergate
The Myth of Woodward, Bernstein & Watergate
How the Washington Post Missed the Biggest Watergate Story of All
LBJ’s ‘X’ File on Nixon’s ‘Treason’
DiEugenio on Parry’s New Book
Watergate’s Washed-Away Lessons
The Republican Party that emerged from Vietnam and Watergate was determined to obliterate the lessons learned, and the Democrats veered between timidity and complicity as those lessons were unlearned. Now, the key lessons are more reminiscence than real, as Michael…