Bernstein: Most journalism has gone downhill since Watergate

The NewsHour
Carl Bernstein said on “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”: “I think that the real trends in journalism in the past 30 years have been toward gossip, sensationalism, manufactured controversy, and at the same time as we’re doing the dumbing down of most American journalism to the point where we’re losing most of our context, then you have these great newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, that are doing better reporting in many ways than they ever have.” BOB WOODWARD’S BEEF: “There is a lot of good journalism, but the environment is, ‘Hey, that’s on CNN. My God, let’s go chase it.'” (PBS NewsHour)
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