Carl Bernstein
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Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the Post a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.
Bernstein quit The Washington Post in 1976. He worked as a senior correspondent for the ABC network, taught at New York University, and contributed to Time. In 1981, he returned to the Post as assistant managing editor for investigations.
Bernstein authored two books with Woodward: All the President's Men, which detailed the successes and failures of their journalistic efforts against the backdrop of the unfolding scandal, and The Final Days, a recounting of the concluding months of the Nixon presidency. He co-authored the book His Holiness: John Paul II & the History of Our Time with Marco Politi. Following the May 2005 revelation of the identity of Deep Throat, Bernstein contributed to Woodward's book The Secret Man, which deals with Woodward's relationship with Mark Felt. In April 2006, Bernstein published an article in Vanity Fair magazine, calling for a Senate investigation into the presidency of George W. Bush [link]. The article also mentions that he is currently working on a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bernstein graduated from Montgomery Blair High School.
Carl Bernstein's second wife was Nora Ephron; a character from her book and movie Heartburn was a thinly-veiled portrayal of him. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of All the President's Men. He was also portrayed by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film Dick.
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- "The media is more powerful than our government institutions, but we are squandering that power." (1999)
- "We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
Popular Culture
In the movie Dick, Bernstein was played by actor/comedian Bruce McCulloch. Bernstein and Bob Woodward are depicted as two petty, bickering, childish near-incompetents who are small-mindedly competitive with each other.External links
- [Summary of 1989 audio interview of Carl Bernstein], including a RealAudio link, from an Ohio University website
- ['Deep Throat' brings Watergate pair together again], a June 2005 New York Times story from the International Herald Tribune website
- Carl Bernstein. [The CIA and the Media], Rolling Stone Magazine, October 20, 1977.
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