before reporting on the watergate scandal, that took down richard nixon s presidency and becoming half of the most famous by line in journalist, carl bernstein was a kid, fresh out of his junior year in high school trying to make it as a copy boy at the tender age of 16. 16. joining us now, carl bernstein, cnn political analyst and the author of the new book chasing history: a kid in the newsroom. the book is available now and it is wonderful. i am enamored with it. it is a love letter to journalism. it is a love letter to newspapers. and it is also something of a love letter or a guide book to hard work. it is. and i m about as lucky as anybody in this business can be because at age 16, while i was a junior in high school, i got a job as a copy boy at perhaps the greatest afternoon newspaper in america, the washington evening
in watergate had their formation in this great newsroom at the washington star with this remarkable group of people. and the other thing i should say is it was an afternoon newspaper and the writing in the paper was magnificent. these were people who knew how to dictate stories on deadline, off the top of their heads. and i learned to do all these things when i was 16, 17, 18. it is about watergate. it is about the work that went into watergate that you learned at the star. you put it politely, you were i can t say it you were a messup. i mean, you were, you know i was flunking out of school. i never finished college. and the book is partly about my struggle with school and how i really put everything into being a reporter, learning to be a reporter. the hell with school. i got the best education you could possibly get and when i went for an interview at the washington post, i was asked, well, what about you didn t
no, for the public we serve and we re going to keep on. i went to jack kennedy s press conferences as a copy boy and i dictated a text back to the washington star where i worked for an afternoon newspaper. to watch kennedy engage with the press, to tell the truth, to have a kind off in his answers o understand this national engagement of the press was a thing to behold. with successive presidents also did this. it began to break down. and i said to sam at the time, i think we need to rethink how we cover these press conferences, and i still believe that. are the answers worth it, sam? that s the suggestion that carl is getting to there. what we re hearing from the president may not be worth it.
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people told me news, i picked up the phone and called the city i work for the afternoon newspaper in dallas, and i told them, for instance, an fbi agent had told me that one of the people killed in the assassination attempt was a secret service agent. and they went with it. they were about to go with it when somebody double checked and didn t go with it. but in today s world. and this is remarkable, because we get all of this tsk-tsking about kids today and the social media and all the confusion that reigns. but it s a truism about human chaos and trauma that false information ripples out. it always does and it must have under the circumstances. i want to hear about how you heard about news, and what it was like inside the news after we take this one quick break. customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online