• Forty years after the Watergate scandal, my new book, Leak, investigates the motivation behind one of history’s most successful anonymous sources. [1 of 3]
 

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culture 12 Jun 2012

by Max Holland, a journalist and author who also edits the website Washington Decoded.
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  • This week, The Washington Post hosted a panel on how we remember Watergate. The storied paper is a captive of Woodward and Bernstein’s fairy tale. [2 of 3]
 
  • John Ford’s classic Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the best films on journalism, as it shows how a legend can trump the facts. [3 of 3]
 
  • Images (in order): cover of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat; photo by Florian Hirzinger via Wikimedia Commons; still from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
 
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