"What you observe is a great wasteland."

[longship]

9. I would have disagreed with that in the early 70's

When Nixon was brought down by the press.

I see some elements of the same with the Recent Christie scandal.

I watched All the President's Men last night, the whole movie, in order to hear Jason Robards, Jr. channelling the WaPo Senior Editor Ben Bradlee explaining the concept of the non-denial denial.

That paradigm is long since gone. The Republican interface with the press has long ago gone far past equivocation. They no longer feel the need to do that. They will now knowingly outright lie.

That's my takeaway of recent events.