1. CNN recently axed their entire investigative journalism department because it was not profitable. Given the importance of investigative journalism in uncovering the Watergate scandal, how
troubling do you find CNN’s decision? Has the role of the media changed? If so, how and what have the consequences been for our society?
2. Do you approve of the reporting methods used by Woodward and Bernstein to further their knowledge of the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up? Why or why not?
3. The Watergate break-in and cover-up was a scandal that caused many Americans to become inherently suspicious of our leaders and their motives. Do we currently have a healthy skepticism
about what politicians will do to further their careers or is it an unhealthy cynicism?