We usually call “Something gate” when inappropriate political activities is revealed to the public in Korea. I didn’t know why media and people called it”-gate”, but I learned it was derived from the Watergate, immoral and illegal activities of politics in the U.S. The movie “All the President Men” described the event in details as the story “Watergate Forces the President to His Knees”.
Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, rookies in journalism at that time, created an enormous innovation of journalism. Verification of journalism had been on the reporting from editors and reporters. They fulfilled verification of journalism in actions more than words. They dealt in depth with the Watergate by investigating all the materials about the event even though they spent lots of time figuring out what associated with the Watergate and who meddled in it.
Through this direct action and clear investigation, the power of journalism was boomed and the new concept of journalism came out. Their contribution to today’s journalism can’t be represented all in words.
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