{"id":7185,"date":"2022-05-02T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:15:18","slug":"why-all-the-presidents-men-is-a-must-watch-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2022\/05\/02\/why-all-the-presidents-men-is-a-must-watch-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018All the President\u2019s Men\u2019 Is a Must Watch Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d is a film that maintains its importance today. It is a political thriller from 1976. The film follows Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. They are two budding journalists for The Washington Post. Bernstein and Woodward are assigned to cover the Watergate Scandal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the film, it is discovered that the Nixon administration ordered the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Several cases of abuse under Nixon\u2019s administration came to light. Government officials tried to cover it up. Bernstein and Woodward knew there was more to the story. They struggled to obtain the truth. The film follows these two through their journey as young journalists covering a presidential scandal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One reason that this film is important is that it shows the importance of the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects our freedom of speech. It also protects the freedom of the press. Without these protections, how could citizens and journalists uncover scandals? Bernstein and Woodward struggled to find the truth. They were lied to. They were turned away by people with important information. Still, they fought for the truth using our First Amendment rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This scandal took place before there was much technology. Notes were hand-written and interviews were recorded by tape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGet out your notebook, there’s more. Your lives are in danger.\u201d This is a quote by Deep Throat, a high-level government official. This quote is one reason the film is important today. It reminds us all of where journalism began. It shows the world how far technology has come. The way that we consume and report news has changed. What has not changed is the importance of the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Today, it is easy to invade someone\u2019s privacy in the age of the internet. We all know more about celebrities than we care to. \u201cAll The President\u2019s Men\u201d demonstrates when a look into the private life of a public figure is necessary. Citizens have grown warier of the government. This is why we have journalists who dig up information. Bernstein and Woodward are examples of journalists who notice that something isn\u2019t right. Their actions matter because without them citizens could not see the abuses of power by the Nixon administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This film shows what journalism is at its core. It shows why it\u2019s so important to seek a story and continue until the truth is revealed. If Bernstein and Woodward had not sought out the details behind this story, the Nixon administration might have gotten away with it all. The Nixon administration would have continued the abuses of power. The scandal taught Americans to be wary of people in these positions. Not everything we are told is true. Every citizen deserves the truth. Journalists such as Bernstein and Woodward go through a lot to provide answers for citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d is a film that maintains its importance today. It is a political thriller from 1976. The film follows Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. They are two budding journalists for The Washington Post. Bernstein and Woodward are assigned to cover the Watergate Scandal.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the film, it is discovered that the Nixon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"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-7185","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\/7185","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\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}