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Originally Posted by pwalker8
So, you are saying that the Washington Post's stories about Watergate, provided by an anonymous source (Deep Throat), is proof that they were bias against Nixon? The use of anonymous sources is a long standing and wide spread tradition in news reporting. This is standard news reporting. Do you think that the news reporters should not report on a story because one side refuses to give their side?
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They had actual documentary evidence, no?
They followed the money, didn't they?
They weren't just publishing unverified allegations, they followed protocol they way it is supposed to be followed and they had actual evidence of law breaking.
Rumormongering isn't investigative reporting.