Carl Bernstein's Boisterous Beginnings (w/ Carl Bernstein)

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Before Watergate brought Carl Bernstein well-deserved fame and fortune, he sharpened his journalistic chops as a copy boy and cub reporter for The Washington Star. It was the Capitol's afternoon newspaper until it was shut down forty-one years ago. And was also The Washington Post's fierce crosstown rival. Bernstein has now written a memoir about his formative days at The Star called Chasing History: A Kid In The Newsroom. It recounts how a kid, who barely graduated high school and never finished college learned how to conduct interviews and craft stories that mattered all while getting a front row seat at some of the biggest events of his time. From the Civil Rights Movement to the assassination of JFK. Bernstein joins to discuss his book and what lessons it has for journalists today.

GUEST:

Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein), Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist

HOSTS:

Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Mr. Bernstein.
0:02.0	Yes, ma'am.
0:03.0	I was wrong.
0:04.0	Are you fine?
0:05.0	The truth is I don't have a car.
0:07.0	The church is Mr. Hunt to any material.
0:10.0	Uh-huh.
0:11.0	I don't remember getting material for...
0:13.0	I do remember getting the material for somebody,
0:15.0	but it wasn't Mr. Hunt.
0:16.0	Right.
0:17.0	The truth is I didn't have any requested oil from Mr. Hunt.
0:21.0	Oh.
0:23.0	The truth is I don't know.
0:25.0	I don't know.
0:26.0	I don't know.
0:28.0	The truth is I don't know, Mr. Hunt.
0:31.0	Yes, this was all on conversation.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:35.0	First of all, I think I got a bunch of books on Hunt.
0:38.0	Like five seconds later, she says,
0:40.0	I don't even know what Mr. Hunt has obvious.
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