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The Watergate Affair


This analysis of the news media coverage will focus on the Watergate
affair which originally began on June 17, 1972 with the break-in of the
Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the prestigious Watergate office
complex in Washington D.C.. I will primarily concentrate on the negative impact
that media coverage had to the publics eye. This media coverage, although
justified and appropriate for the situation, ultimately destroyed the
credibility of Nixon's administration and the ability to run an effective
government which forced the first resignation of an American president.
The history of the events at hand is as follows. The Nixon
Administration financed a White House Special Investigative Unit called the
plumbers. This unit was initially established under John Erlichmann a top White
House aide, to "plug" leaks from the White House to the press and consisted of
former FBI and CIA operatives. It comes to fact that these plumbers were......

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