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Why the Times Blew Watergate
A recent article in The New York Times suggested that the paper “mysteriously” lost a scoop on Watergate, but the real reason the Times lost the story, Peter Osnos writes, was because it was disdainful of shoe-leather journalism.
Peter Osnos
Published
Jun. 8 2009
7:42PM EDT
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