Columbia Journalism Review, January 1st, 1995
Whitewater has tested the proposition stated nearly a century and a half ago by the orator Wendell Phillips: "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." Phillips spoke in a time when editorial writing was considered the height of the journalistic art; it has since been in a long decline and investigative reporting has become newspapers' political weapon of choice. But Whitewater has reawakened the obsolescent editorial page. Investigative reporting -- half enterprise and half leak -- came first, of course, carrying the issue to its place near the top of the national political a...
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