We all know that Watergate was the liberal wet dream—it brought down a hated Republican President who had just handed them a humiliating landslide defeat. The mainstream media today is obviously carrying the water for Obama. In 1972, however, the nightly news and daily papers were the only conduits of information. There was time for the media to turn a bungled two bit burglary into the greatest political scandal ever. In 2012, most people have cell phones with cameras, and events unfold on the internet instantaneously as they happen. In 1972 there was no opposing voice to put Watergate in context— there was no internet, no 24/7 tv news, and no Rush. There was only Walter Cronkite. Liberals despise free speech and an informed populace, so they naturally long for the days when they had total control of the media.
Well stated. Watergate was a media coup.