Philadelphia Inquirer
"Watergate may have been journalism's
finest hour, but what it spawned is not," writes
Kim Alan Gigstead. "Journalism of the '80s and '90s was peppered with 'Woodstein wannabes.' ... As a Republican press secretary in the 1980s, I fended off more questions about sleazy girlfriends, supposed kickbacks, and alleged drug use than anything about tax reform, foreign policy or national infrastructure."
