This week I used the Washington Post as my media outlet. It has a wide array of topics from world news and politics to sports and business. It seems like an outlet that can be used by anybody looking to read up on any sort of news. I liked the website and thought it was very easy to navigate through it

After reading “Watergate: The long shadow of a scandal,” I realized just how much of an impact that the Watergate Scandal had on America. I knew it was a big deal, but I did not realize that it changed the people’s opinion of the government into a distrustful one. It makes a little more sense no why people are so skeptical of politicians and why citizens call politicians “crooks.” The scandal, also, changed the relationship between politicians and news reporters. Afterwards, politicians were constantly watched and followed by news reporters, just waiting for a slip up, so that they could get a good news story.

Seeing how the story would have been covered on Facebook was pretty cool. With social media being such a big part of people’s lives these days, the story sure would have had an even larger impact on people. It really shows how far journalism has come since then.

I watched the video “Woodward and Bernstein on Nixon’s criminal enterprise.” Journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sat down to discuss the Watergate Scandal 40 years after it occurred. They expressed that they enjoy working together, but there’s a tension between their partnership. However, this tension causes them to have a different view of the world and news that creates better journalism. It is really cool to see that these two journalists still work together. Bernstein talked about just how big the crime was that Nixon committed and how much bigger a deal it was that he covered up the crime.