These are the first and second level inquiries for completing tasks of my The Well-Educated Mind Self-Project. The third one would be posted separately.
Grammar-Stage Reading
Who is this story about? What challenge did
they face?
Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward are two Washington Post’s reporters who covered news
of Watergate scandal that forced President Richard M. Nixon to resign his
office. They wanted to reveal the truth—who, why, how—behind the breaking-in
and tapping of the Democratic headquarter.
Who or what causes this challenge?
Watergate
seemed to be controlled by President Nixon’s Committee for Re-election of The
President (CRP) team. Of course, White House denied and covered up any
inquiries from reporters that had any chance to put them in dangerous position.
What happened to the two reporters?
Confronted
with the absolute power of high level executives, the two reporters had bravely
submitted direct inquiries to powerful people, sometimes attacking them through
their news—while kept maintaining the newspaper’s integrity by never reporting something they were not 100% sure of the accuracy —in order to reveal the
truth.
Logic-State Reading
Look for the reporters major assertions
Since this story
was previously written as series of reports in newspaper, Carl Bernstein and
Bob Woodward published this book also as a chronological series of reports; and
therefore I could not find the explicit major assertions within the history.
However, I think the reporters wanted to highlight that it is the nation’s and
people’s responsible to seek the truth about their government, even if it might
have been conducted by the highest levels of authorities. We must always look
at and thoroughly work on all possibilities and chances; that nothing is impossible.
What questions are the reporters asking?
They knew
that Watergate had something to do with the high levels in White House; the
question was how far the moral corruption had infected White House. Did the
President involve in this, did he know about it, or was it merely his men’s
action?
What sources do the reporters use to answer
them?
They dug
every news—new and old ones, every comment from interviews with so many people--but they had also a valuable secret source that seemed to know everything and
involved in the case. This source—nicknamed Deep Throat—has guided the
reporters to find the truth, without revealing his own identity. They also
consulted their lawyer for legal aspects of interviewing, quoting comments and
reporting it for the newspaper.
Does the evidence support the connection
between questions and answers?
In their
reports, the two reporters always followed journalism ethics by cross-examining
and reconfirming news with other sources, and provided the subject chances to
deny or confirm the news. So, I think they always used a respectable evidence
to answer their questions.
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