{"id":6692,"date":"2021-06-04T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:24:10","slug":"the-first-amendment-a-presidential-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2021\/06\/04\/the-first-amendment-a-presidential-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Amendment \u2013 A Presidential Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0America was built on democracy. But what happens when the heart of democracy is put at risk? Two reporters risked their lives, their careers and their credibility to protect the sanctity of America and the heart of journalism\u2013the First Amendment. On a journey that started with an unwanted burglary reporting assignment, these two men work their way through the political ranks to prove the internal Republican involvement in the break-in attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Little did they know that the investigation would lead all the way up to the White House and would lead to President Nixon\u2019s resignation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The film \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d follows Robert \u201cBob\u201d Woodward and Carl Bernstein\u2019s investigation after a break-in at the DNC at the Watergate office building. Throughout their journey of political discovery, Woodward and Bernstein run into one consistent obstacle: fear of retaliation from the most powerful man in America, President Nixon. While they interviewed many persons of interest, cooperation was consistently minimal. President Nixon\u2019s administration attempted to block the Washington Post as well as the New York Times from publishing articles related to the incident at Watergate.\u00a0 The First Amendment rights, however, were upheld as the court dictated that the generalization of \u201cnational security\u201d was not specific enough to justify overhauling the First Amendment\u2019s clause regarding freedom of the press. While Woodward and Bernstein\u2019s discoveries throughout the course of their investigation were of deep concern to our political system, they allowed for much a much-needed transformation of the United States presidential campaign policies. Moving forward, elections have had increased transparency and regulation of funds dedicated to political elections. This scandal also paved the way for rebranding career paths in journalism as a catalyst for conversation around political justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After a mistake was published in October of 1972, the Post\u2019s managing editor, Ben Bradlee, and Woodward and Bernstein were increasingly cautious of guarding their credibility. Instead of allowing the attempts of intimidation by the government to shut down their operation, they were exponentially thorough in their further publishings. In their following stories, Bradlee required two solid sources for each story and sometimes even delayed publication until every detail could be confirmed. While resisting the urge to beat the competitors to break the newest details of the fight against President Nixon, the Washington Post was able to build strong credibility and take a stand against corrupt political practices that posed a threat against America\u2019s democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0History is known to repeat itself. We had a glimpse of this in 2017 when President Trump attempted to intimidate the Washington Post into terminating a journalist over a reporting error. The Washington Post, true to its brand, was not intimidated and continued to employ the journalist and stayed true to its reporting. The Washington Post changed the way that the public viewed the government in the 1970s by exposing the Watergate Scandal that otherwise would have gone undetected, resulting in a corrupt presidential election, and has held true to that sentiment since. Showcasing the qualities of an ideal national news reporting outlet, the Washington Post has built trust and credibility with the American people time and time again by resisting political intimidation and maintaining integrity in its writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In this Pulitzer-winning political mystery, you see a real-life American scandal unravel all while Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein protect Freedom of the Press. You will experience an integral part of American history, and possibly find yourself invested into a new career path. It\u2019s not a film you want to miss. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0America was built on democracy. But what happens when the heart of democracy is put at risk? Two reporters risked their lives, their careers and their credibility to protect the sanctity of America and the heart of journalism\u2013the First Amendment. On a journey that started with an unwanted burglary reporting assignment, these two men work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8255,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}