Postgate. How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today's Partisan Advoc
(2020)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2020
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 11 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781094096964 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13338761, 1094096962 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13338761
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by Joe Barrett

Deep Throat's lawyer discovers the Washington Post betrayed his client-while covering up the real truth about the Watergate scandal. The conventional wisdom of Watergate is turned on its head by Postgate, revealing that the Post did not uncover Watergate as much as it covered it up. The Nixon Administration, itself involved in a cover-up, was the victim of a journalistic smoke-screen that prevented mitigation of its criminal guilt. As a result of the paper's successful misdirection, today's strikingly deceptive partisan journalism can be laid at the doorstep of the Washington Post. After Deep Throat's lawyer, author John O'Connor, discovered that the Post had betrayed his client while covering up the truth about Watergate, his indefatigable research resulted in Postgate, a profoundly shocking tale of journalistic deceit. In an era when numerous modern media outlets rail about the guilt of their political enemies for speaking untruths, Postgate proves that the media can often credibly be viewed as the party actually guilty of deception. Americans today mistrust the major media more than ever. Postgate will prove that this distrust is richly deserved

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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