Probably Unanswerable Questions
New York Times omission, Deep Throat identity, and modern political sabotage
In the discussion (4)
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- The film is criticized for minimizing the New York Times’s competing Watergate reporting
- Whether life would be more fun if Deep Throat remained unidentified receives agreement, though disclosure is defended as helping Mark Felt’s family
- Revealing Felt is said to rebut suspicions that Woodward invented or combined Deep Throat
- Whether Watergate tactics supplied a blueprint for later Russian election interference is debated