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02/16/2017
Who says journalism is a dead-end major?
Forget the angst over “fake news” and the threats to journalism. We are living in a new golden age, thanks to the travails and missteps of the Trump administration and the outsized personality of the man in the middle.
During the era of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, led by The New York Times and The Washington Post, (along with a few others and the networks news organizations) there was a thrilling sense of one-upmanship, as each of the top news organizations competed to come up with new revelations, scoops, insights.
Woodward and Bernstein were the role models for us young journalists. I remember Katharine Graham addressing my graduating class at The Columbia University School of Journalism and thinking: someday I will work for that company.
The Post was talking truth to power, was unbowed, and the journalists making the difference were just a little older than I. (I ended up spending over a quarter century at that company, overseeing the news for the Washington Post Co.’s station division.)
