After almost every scene where Woodward and Bernstein interview a source, is a scene where one or both of them are talking to at least one editor about what they have discovered.
At a newspaper, hard news must have a hook or the reader will refuse to continue reading after the first or second paragraph, and the editors in this film clearly know this.

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During these meetings, the editors constantly ask Woodward and Bernstein what they think the news is, and most of the time the editors scoff to whatever the two say.
This kind of "tough love" is what makes a newsroom work.
In "All the President's Men," Woodward and Bernstein are forced to sit and watch Bradlee read their story, red pen in hand.
Bradlee asks questions about the story, about specific people and the two reporters give the horrendous response "I don't know."
"Get some harder information next time," Bailee responds.
This simple sentence cuts to the chase of what reporting is all about and why a newsroom operates the way it does.
The reader will ask the same questions the editors do, and without harder information, the story might as well be "put somewhere on the inside," as Bailee says.

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