RICHARD NIXON Watergate 1973 (Part 3) The Press is the Enemy (B)

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In this our third episode of RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE, we have our second part of a look at the journalists who covered Watergate in 1973 and 1974. Most of them were truly awful, but not all.
In this episode you will hear from journalists, like Dan Rather and David Brinkley, who show a stunning lack of self awareness, in one case especially where the person actually says they could not stand Richard Nixon and had no respect for him but "I never attacked him on the air, and I always treated him fairly"....No s#&! He actually says that!!! (Tune in to hear it for yourself)
But we do move on to some truly ethical, fair minded, and good people in the media who deserve to be shown for the champions of integrity they actually were in the history of journalism. Many of the journalists featured worked for one major news network , ABC News. We will listen to oral histories of Howard K. Smith, Ted Koppel , Mike Wallace (the one CBS exception) and Barbara Walters as they describe the President they covered and interviewed throughout their careers.
In the end, you will get to hear from President Richard Nixon himself, the victim of arguably the most unfair media coverage in the history of politics, and what he says will shock you!! In his early 1990's interview with Hugh Sidey, he actually defends the importance of protecting the media's right to cover political figures however they see fit.