I was around when President Nixon was re-elected in a landslide that, to the media and the Democrats (excuse the redundancy) was humiliating, embarrassing and totally unacceptable.
And we know what they did about that.
I was a high-school junior in 1972, and all my friends (that were political) were for McGovern. My entire attention span was taken up by my girlfriend at the time.
In 1973, I began to pay attention to Watergate, and the MSM went hog-wild over that, it's true, but I'm afraid Nixon gave them the opportunity, they just ran with it.
So you're right, I am a little short of old enough.
The Watergate saturation coverage went from roughly the spring of '73 clear through Nixon's resignation in August of '74, and then they went on dancing on his (political) grave until dip-excrement Carter was elected. Ford got rolled over like Rachel Corrie, they scraped him off the pavement. WIN buttons, give me a break.
So the MSM kept it up with Watergate for about three years. They'll try to keep it up with PDJT for ten, but by the end of those ten years what's left of the MSM will look like a ghost.
All of them literally had wall-to-wall coverage of Watergate, including gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democrat-controlled congressional hearings, spotlighting that "wise, old country lawyer" Sam Ervin trashing Nixon and all Republicans every chance he opened his spittle-laden mouth.
All network coverage included "analysis" from such stalwarts as Dan Rather, praising the Democrats for their Lincolnesque statesmanship in saving the republic.
Nixon never had a chance.