Postgate

How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today's Partisan Advocacy Journalism

By: John O'Connor

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Deep Throat’s lawyer discovers the Washington Post betrayed his client - while covering up the real truth about the Watergate scandal.

The conventional wisdom of Watergate is turned on its head by Postgate, revealing that the Post did not uncover Watergate as much as it covered it up. The Nixon Administration, itself involved in a cover-up, was the victim of a journalistic smoke-screen that prevented mitigation of its criminal guilt. As a result of the paper’s successful misdirection, today’s strikingly deceptive partisan journalism can be laid at the doorstep of the Washington Post.

After Deep Throat’s lawyer, author John O’Connor, discovered that the Post had betrayed his client while covering up the truth about Watergate, his indefatigable research resulted in Postgate, a profoundly shocking tale of journalistic deceit.

In an era when numerous modern media outlets rail about the guilt of their political enemies for speaking untruths, Postgate proves that the media can often credibly be viewed as the party actually guilty of deception. Americans today mistrust the major media more than ever. Postgate will prove that this distrust is richly deserved.

©2019 John O'Connor (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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I agree with the basic premise of the book that Woodward and Bernstein started the lean towards opinion journalism and agenda based media coverage but the book is just to slow for me. It seems like a lot of filler to finish a book that could have been half the size.

Watergate with recent updated information.

The first half is a little slow. The author does give some useful background. The middle covers an updated view of Watergate. The end studies where the Washington Post messed up the story. The author mentions the major texts and documents about Watergate. The author also uses his legal background to discuss some details. Overall I recommend this for anyone wanting to study Watergate (especially the second half).

Woodward Shown As A Slimeball

This book shows clearly that Woodward is a sleaze and can't be trusted and the Washington Post is unethical along with Ben Bradley.

A lawyer lays out the case for fraud in the news

the book is largely not sensationalist, but covers the story of uncovering deepthroat and in the process, a media cover up of facts relevant to the "biggest" scandal in American history.

Excellent work excellent book

In an age of such deep awareness of the manipulation of events by media and their puppet masters, and of the the shallowness of Human awareness through the expansion of un-social media - this book should be standard reading in college history classes - it is a case study of what still occurs today. An absolute tragedy of the commons - where hero-boy -girl scouts such as John Dean are unmasked as real luciferian-like villains … Bush - Cheney - Clinton - Fauci - and the list goes on and on - we can start our Capital for examples in the nest of the absence of virtue !