The Press: Nixon v. the Vultures

Richard Nixon and the press have had each other to kick around for so long that the combat is sometimes treated as if it were a comfortable old joke, like the Laugh-In sock-it-to-me bit. But the issues involved deserve serious consideration. How much do the personal tastes and politics of newsmen color their treatment of a controversial public man? Where lies the boundary between analysis and advocacy? Is the press recklessly tearing down public confidence?

These questions are at the core of a new book, President Nixon and the Press (Funk &...