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Candy Crowley ... Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein

This morning (Sunday June 22, 2014) Candy Crowley had Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on her show 'Stata of the Union'. The clips do not tell the big story!

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

This morning (Sunday June 22, 2014) Candy Crowley had Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on her show 'Stata of the Union' The following are two clips from the conversation.

What is missing however from these clips is the part of the conversation where Woodward and Bernstein made it very clear that a big part of the problem was the performance of the media. What they said was a powerful indictment of the way the modern media does a lot of talking (and image projection) without much real journalism and digging into the story. Candy used budget pressure as a justification for shallow reporting, but it was pointed out that in much mainstream media the prodits from entertainment could easily fund really good journalism, but getting news to be as profitable as entertainment was not realistic nor necessary.

The fact that this part of the conversation went missing speaks volumes for CNN in particular and the media in general.

June 22nd, 2014 10:32 AM ET

Watergate legends on today’s scandals

Watergate reporters Woodward and Bernstein on how reporters should cover Benghazi and the IRS.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/06/22/exp-sotu-woodward-bernstein-on-benghazi-and-irs.cnn.html

June 22nd, 2014 10:10 AM ET

Two legendary reporters' take on Iraq

On Iraq: Woodward and Bernstein say between Bush and Obama there is enough blame to go all around.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/06/22/exp-sotu-woodward-and-bernstein.cnn.html