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Nov 26, 2011AtomicFez rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The dialogue is of the mid-70s style – meaning “not all that damn much” – which bring a fair bit of realism to the matter, yet is still sufficient to support the narrative. The events of the time play out on TV screens in the newsroom easily enough, until we get far enough into the reporting that those same screens start reflecting the effects of the reporters’ efforts back to them. Suddenly the use – nay, need – of journalists to go and poke around where voices are not being heard is more apparent than before. To say “nothing was the same after ‘Watergate’ happened” is accurate, but over-simplifies in the same way that “Jesus wept” is ridiculously succinct. Until it became the scandal it is now known to be, the President of the United States, as well as the CIA and FBI – plus any other World Leaders you can name – were seen as un-topple-able, and almost unquestionable in their nobility. Leaders were there because they deserved to be. The events initiated by CREEP and those above its offices were unthinkable. The cynicism of today for those in power exists as a direct result of this beginning the snowball of more secret arrangements, pay-offs, and political back-scratching for the next three decades. The growing discontent with the Vietnam War served to add fuel to the fire of Watergate’s conflagration of office leave-taking. Awesome film, and something that is important to watch in order to see where all this started to go wrong. Well, okay it went wrong long before this, but the awareness of it being incorrect began here.