He is in London this week, to participate in a Guardian-organised debate entitled After Hacking: How can the press restore trust? And if anybody can decide if hackgate (more of that later) has any parallels to Watergate, Bernstein is one of the few who can do it legitimately. In fact, he has made the link already, in a 9 July article published on the Daily Beast and Newsweek, called Murdoch’s Watergate.
At first, though, Bernstein is reticent about being drawn into the topic for this interview, saying, “look what I wrote in that piece”. He says that he wants to save fresh thinking on the topic for his visit to the UK. But he returns to theme later on, pointing out that the hacking story “was the first time I made comparisons between another event and Watergate”.
In its way it is significant. The parallel, as he sees it, stems from the fact that Rupert Murdoch “in Britain captured to an incredible extent the press, the police and political institutions”, and that has been followed by “a mad search for a smoking gun to implicate Murdoch in a definite manner to a particular act” of hacking “like in Watergate”. Murdoch, on this thinking, is Richard Nixon.
“Hacking is about a notion of what journalism is and what is permissible – just as Watergate was about what it's permissible for the president to do,” he says, arguing that Murdoch is, in the broadest sense, responsible for his now closed Sunday tabloid. He describes the News of the World as “a reflection of the man who presides over that empire” – which is a way to describe the conduct of those who worked for Nixon too.
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