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GAINESVILLE, Fla.-- A Hollywood blockbuster from the '70s showcases the reality of hard news reporting and the lengths to which some reporters must go to get the story and get it right.
"All the President's Men," shows what reporters Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) had to go through to uncover the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency.
For any good reporter, the key to any story, no matter how groundbreaking it is, is fact checking. An incorrect fact could lead to major lawsuits and cost reporters and editors their jobs.
In the beginning of the film, when Woodward is in the courtroom, he interviews a lawyer who gives him the name Starke.
"Starke," Woodword confirms and then checks on the spelling. "S-T-A-R..."
Even misspelling a name can be reason enough for a person to sue a newspaper, and when Woodword and Bernstein deal with a story of this magnitude, nothing is more important than good, accurate reporting.
With a story as complicated as the Watergate scandal, there are many details and many sources, and Woodward and Bernstein are forced to break one of the cardinal rules of reporting: no anonymous sources.
The film portrays the two reporter using anonymous sources, or sources who talk "off the record," but it also shows Woodward and Bernsteain checking facts constantly.
When "The Washington Post" wants to publish Woodstein's, as the reports are called by their editor, story that accuses White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman of being directly connected to the scandal, editor Ben


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