The character Deep Throat, who we now know was Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI at the time of Watergate, is the most intriguing of Watergate characters regarding the journalism so crucial to understanding the scandal. This episode explores the motive and intent of this source when he meets with Woodward in their first all-night parking garage meeting, and thereafter. Why did he do it? Was he out to “get” Nixon or some other end. And did the Washington Post and Bob Woodward capture the essence of this most misunderstood man? Analyzing the work of Mark Felt, this clever, principled man helps us begin our unpacking of the journalism so integral to the scandal, and in so doing gets us started on a journey of understanding what is good for our democracy, and what is not, about today’s “investigative” journalism.
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