June 17, 1972. This was the day that the biggest political scandal of the century was about to start being uncovered. This was the day that the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which were located in the Watergate complex, had been robbed. In a story of this magnitude, one would come to expect that there would be certain journalistic issues.
In mid December 1971, The New York Times ran a story on the front page of the paper saying that at least 15 calls were made from one of the alleged burglars, Bernard L. Barker's, phone. Carl Bernstein, part of the famed "Woodstein", who was working on this story, had several sources he could use to get information about the calls, but was hesitant to use them because he didn't want to intrude on the confidentiality of a person's phone records. The issue of confidentiality is something that journalists must always be careful of when reporting a story.
In order to get a jump on the case, Bernstein suggested to Woodward, his partner,......

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Title: All The Presidents Men
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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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