{"id":5271,"date":"2018-04-20T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:30:06","slug":"tracking-down-the-most-powerful-crooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/04\/20\/tracking-down-the-most-powerful-crooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Down the Most Powerful Crooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How important can a reporter\u2019s job become?\u00a0 What consequences can a reporter\u2019s story have?\u00a0 \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d shows an inside look into just how dangerous and significant a reporter\u2019s job can be.\u00a0 Although the Watergate scandal is a household term today, many young people might not understand its significance or know the huge role that journalism had in bringing the guilty to justice.\u00a0 This film explores the many challenges of being a journalist, although this time, a lot is on the line.\u00a0 Two skilled but relatively unknown journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, find themselves investigating crimes and accusing men at the very top of the government and intelligence agencies, including the president, Richard Nixon.\u00a0 It makes a great movie but what makes it even more interesting is that it\u2019s all true.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a movie that shows the point of view of Nixon and his law-breaking accomplices, this film isn\u2019t going to deliver.\u00a0 This movie is about the heroes at The Washington Post. It focuses on the journalists who worked tirelessly to bring these high profile crooks to justice.\u00a0 It\u2019s got a chain-smoking Dustin Hoffman with atrocious hair going through the agonies of finding sources when nobody wants to talk.\u00a0 It\u2019s got late night rendezvous with Deepthroat in a sketchy parking garage.\u00a0 It\u2019s also one of the most in-depth movies on the Watergate scandal and a great look inside 1970s journalism during a crowning achievement.\u00a0 If these men at the Post didn\u2019t work tirelessly, sometimes putting their very lives in danger, to get this story printed, who knows how much longer those crooked politicians would have stolen and lied to the American people and the Constitution they were hired to protect and to serve?<\/p>\n

This film shows that although the role of the journalist may be the bane of a politician\u2019s existence, it really is an integral part of any democracy.\u00a0 The real-life men represented here show us that no matter how far down the rabbit hole a story goes, it is a journalist\u2019s job to pursue the truth.\u00a0 Who else can keep members of the government in check when they have the FBI and CIA working to cover up their crimes?<\/p>\n

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Long before presidents cried about \u201cfake news,\u201d journalists wouldn\u2019t dream of accusing the most powerful man in the country of criminal corruption.\u00a0 That is just what two journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, played by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, did in the 1970s.\u00a0 They put their careers and even their lives on the line for one of the biggest stories on political corruption of the century.\u00a0 We all know what happened to Richard Nixon, but just how close was he from getting away with it all?\u00a0 Can Carl Bernstein\u2019s hair get any sillier? \u00a0Why is a man named Deepthroat in the Watergate scandal?\u00a0 Find out all these burning questions and more in, \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

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