Deep Throat's Long-Awaited Identity Elicits Blogger Discussion
Thank goodness. As a journalism graduate of the 1970s, I can now quit worrying about the possibility of dying without knowing who Deep Throat is/was. The weekend revelation that former FBI Assistant Director Mark Felt was the source relied on by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for their Watergate coverage is all over the blogosphere today.
The Blue Bus blog notes that Fox News began attacking Felt within seconds of the announcement, while the War and Piece blog at least puts the news in some kind of historical perspective. Gawker Media has a little fun with the rejected New York Post headlines while Powerpundit says Felt's identity -- long rumored but always denied -- is a bit anticlimatic. And journalism students at the University of Illinois got it wrong, too.
To illustrate the spike in buzz about Deep Throat, BlogPulse's Trend Graphing capability tracked the search terms "Deep Throat," "anonyous source" and "retraction" (Newsweek-related) over the past month and came up with this:
Political discoveries...
Is the tide turning on support for Social Security reform? A Zogby poll finds some shifts in public opinion, especially among the under-50 crowd. And Vice President Dick Cheney is making news, not only for his prediction that the invasion in Iraq may drag on until 2009 but his displeasure with the recent Amnesty International report on U.S. treatment of detainees. Overspun blog provides a video link to Cheney's boss' reaction as well.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: What did you pay for gas over the Memorial Day weekend?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 1, 2005 09:37 AM
