Woodward and Bernstein were Mark Felt’s lacky stenographers. Felt (Deep Throat) had a major league axe to grind against Nixon (he wanted to replace J. Edgar Hoover_, and Bernstein was a useful idiot for Felt’s nefarious purposes. Investigative Journalist? He was Felt’s Butt Boy.
Exactly, now the sap lefty reporters sit around in their pj's getting emails from various Deep State lefty whistle blower leakers trying to get noticed.