All The President's Men

Here is a link to background articles and timeline for Watergate and the investigation by Woodward and Bernstein

http://jea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/specialreport.pdf


Answer the following questions on your own blog by FRIDAY MAY 1ST:
1) What does Bob Woodward have to do to get information about the Watergate break in?

2) How difficult do you think it was to get information about a story BEFORE the internet? What would reporters have to do instead?

3) Why did Bob Woodward have to be careful about not being followed when he met with Deep Throat?

4) When Carl Berstein (Dustin Hoffman) gives Woodward the name Kenneth H. Dahlberg what does Woodward have to use to find a phone number for Dahlberg?

5) The story of Dahlberg's check ending up in the account of a Watergate burglar ends up being on the front page but it is "below the fold." What does that mean?

6) How did Bernstein get Mitchell (former Attorney General) to confirm that he was the one to control any of the secret funds?

7) What did Donald Secretti do?

8) Why do you think they need so many people to confirm information?

9) Why do you think people keep saying how much they "love this country" as they are nervous and unsure about whether to publish the stories? 

10) What was the end result of the work done on Watergate by Woodward and Bernstein?

Good Night and Good Luck

Please answer the following questions


1) Why were CBS executives and its journalists so hesitant about questioning Senator McCarthy?
2) What method did Murrow and the other journalists use in the first story against McCarthy? Why did they choose this way to tell their story?
3) Describe McCarthy's appearance on Murrow's program. In your opinion, was it positive? Negative?
4) Why did Murrow's schedule get changed on CBS from a nightly program to Sunday afternoons?
5) What does Friendly and Murrow refer to as the "downfall of television?"
6) What ended up happening to McCarthy?
7) What was Murrow's speech at the beginning and the end of the film about?

Please post your blogs NO LATER THAN FRIDAY APRIL 10TH.