David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

There are multiple lessons to draw from that incident. One of course is the importance of reporters getting every detail right when following a big story. The error of October 26, 1972, might have cost Woodward and Bernstein their beat, if not their jobs. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 26, 2021

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"Nixon’s men used the error to disparage all of the newspaper’s Watergate reporting. ... [Press secretary Ron] Ziegler accused The Post of engaging in 'shoddy and shabby' journalism and called the article a 'blatant effort at character assassination.'" https://t.co/lHwOPUifak 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 26, 2021

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But the second lesson of the October 1972 error is that catching a reporter in a mistake is not the same thing as debunking the larger story the reporter is revealing. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 26, 2021