The fathers of investigative journalism, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are joined by Robert Redford to reflect on the Watergate story, the movie "All The President's Men", how the value of good journalism and the media has changed today, and question if the system could ever work again. Uploaded under Creative Commons Lic From Ch. www.youtube.com/user/TheLBJLibrary www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/woodstein/ Between 1972 and 1976, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein emerged as two of the most famous journalists in America and became forever identified as the reporters who broke the biggest story in American politics. Beginning with the investigation of a "third-rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, Woodward and Bernstein uncovered a system of political "dirty tricks" and crimes that eventually led to indictments of forty White House and administration officials, and ultimately to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-the-presidents-men-1976 "All the President's Men" is truer to the craft of journalism than to the art of storytelling, and that's its problem. The movie is as accurate about the processes used by investigative reporters as we have any right to expect, and yet process finally overwhelms narrative -- we're adrift in a sea of names, dates, telephone numbers, coincidences, lucky breaks, false leads, dogged footwork, denials, evasions, and sometimes even the truth. Just such thousands of details led up to Watergate and the Nixon resignation, yes, but the movie's more about the details than about their results.

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