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“It Was Also A Sloppy, Ethically Dubious Project”
John Cook and Hamilton Nolan are consistently good reads at Gawker. The former can sometimes be extreme–his takedown of Mike Wallace went too far, I think–but even in his excess a lot can be learned....
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“Watergate Practically Became A Copyrighted Story Of Bernstein And Woodward”
In a rare moment when he wasn’t watching porno, William F. Buckley spoke with Watergate heroes Bob Woodward (a hack-ish writer of dubious veracity) and Carl Bernstein (a brilliant reporter and suspect...
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“The Only Organizations Whose Tax-Exempt Statuses Were Actually Denied Were...
Our new technologies have enabled a neverending news cycle–more like a terminal sprint than a cycle, actually–that demands immediate response, that makes caution and patience seem like cowardice or...
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“It Is The Only Morning Newspaper In The Most Powerful Capital In The World”
Almost 40 years before Jeff Bezos rescued the Washington Post from stegosaurus status, the paper was ascendant in the aftermath of its Watergate reportage, and the focus of a 60 Minutes report by Mike...
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“Robert Redford Decided To Approach Woodward And Bernstein About A Movie...
As the Washington Post enters its Jeff Bezos era, which hopefully will be better and can’t be much worse than what preceded it, here’s a 1976 making-of featurette for Alan J.Pakula’s excellent...
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“Where Do You Start The Movie?”
Donald Trump, equal parts George Steinbrenner and George Wallace, has made it clear that there will be riots if he doesn’t get the GOP nomination. There will likely be riots even if he does. There’ll...
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“I Think The Book Is Particularly Relevant Today”
David Grann was asked to name a quintet of great “True Crime” titles for a Five Books interview, and among the volumes about brutal and strange murders, he made a non-obvious and timely choice with...
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