Newsweek: Bob Woodward on Jeff Bezos, Trump, and the Future of Investigative Reporting
Want to bring down Donald Trump?
Don’t count on Robert Mueller. Forget Congress. Learn to do investigative journalism. And you might as well study with one of the only living people who really did help oust a president: Bob Woodward.
He’s best known for his historic work covering the Watergate revelations for The Washington Post with reporting partner Carl Bernstein. Woodward, still a Post journalist 45 years later, is now spilling his secrets by teaching a MasterClass (an online MasterClass.com workshop) on reporting. The timing couldn’t be better: Donald Trump’s various scandals, coupled with movies like Spotlight and The Post, have awakened a national interest in investigative journalism, and he is historically well-suited to offer insight.
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Update: Bob Woodward: Many reporters have 'become emotionally unhinged' covering Trump (The Hill)
WNU Editor: Unhinged is an understatement. The "money-quote" from Bob Woodward is this one ....
.... I don't think journalism is failing at all in the Trump era. But we have a lot of work to do. A number of reporters have at times become emotionally unhinged about it all, one way or the other.
My beef with journalism is that when they want a cover a story .... they are very good at it. The problem is what do they want to cover. Case in point .... today there is a lot of coverage on President Trump and a porn actress that he may have had an affair with a dozen years ago. But very little if any coverage on this story linking many Democrat leaders with a known anti-Semite and racist, and if there is coverage, a perplexion on why .... Why Louis Farrakhan Is Back in the News (New York Times).
