Don't Swallow Deep Throat

The new revelations concerning the Watergate affair have sparked a new interest in the situation. The day after Mark-Felt came out of the closet, demand for renting the film All the President's Men increased two-fold and soon publishers were introducing a new mass-market paperback of the book. All this interest was sparked when Felt publicly announced that he was the instrumental source in the investigation, previously only known as "Deep Throat." Until recently, nobody know who exactly "Deep Throat" was, all we knew was that he helped put Woodward and Bernstien on the right trail during their investigation.
Some background on the strange source name that is "Deep Throat": During the 70s the infamous porno film, Deep Throat, was released into theatres all across America. The film is most famous for possibly being the first adult film to be accepted by mainstream society. Just before Felt admitted he was the source in the Watergate scandal, a documentary actually came out about the porno film and the public's reaction to it. Today we have the number two FBI man from the Nixon years coming out and telling us that he was the special source. My guess for why Felt didn't come out publically for so long was simple. Who wants to admit that they named themselves after a movie portraying a woman with a clitoris in her throat? That's probably the worst psuedo-name anyone could ever pick.
But why does this new information matter or effect the American public? I really couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that the mainstream media is having a field day reminding us how objective they are and reminicing of the startling things they are willing to uncover for our benifit. Unfortunately it was only one paper that even investigated the Watergate break-in, and that paper, the Washington Post, hasn't released any major investigative news in over thirty years.
When you actually put your mind to use and think about the original "groundbreaking" Watergate investigation by the Post, it really isn't that impressive. For one thing, government sponsered break-ins and wire-taps are completely legal by today's standards under the PATRIOT act. They don't even need a warrant.
Secondly, the "investigation" still hasn't even been fully executed to this day. All we know is that Nixon's thugs broke into the Democratic National Commitee headquarters in the Watergate hotel, took some photos and adjusted some bugging equiptment they had already installed. Nobody has came out and asked "Well what the hell were they up to?" Obviously the act was some form of sabotage against the Democratic Party, but we aren't supposed to know any details about what the whole plan was. In fact, I've never heard any media source even ask that question. We are supposed to remember it as a dark day in American history in which an arbitrary burglary was done by the Nixon administration and that, luckily, we have an objective media institution that will tell us when the government commits such henious crimes.
But seriously, if this is the best the media can investigate I think I'll pass. Almost any illegal act done by the government during that time period would have been more important to tell the public. What would would the people think if the Post released this story headline: "NIXON USES FBI TO KILL OPPOSING PARTY LEADER." That could be considered objective journalism. And it happened too. Chicago's Black Panther Party was just as legitimate of a Party as the Democrats were, but for some reason, the press didn't mind when the FBI illegally broke into a leading member's home (Fred Hampton) and didn't "burglarize" the place, but sprayed bullets everywhere, killing Hamton and wounding others. It's not even like this was an isolated incident. Other legitamite Partys have been sabatoged such as Socialist and Communist Partys that have been wire-tapped by the government as well under a secret and illegal government program called COINTELPRO.



These are all legal government parties that have been illegally sabotaged by those in power, but our "objective" media did't find an issue the public needed to know about. Government officials breaking into the DNC headquarters is something that should be reported, but there are government violations of law of this calibur that can be reported each day (not once every three decades) if journalists had real balls. The new Deep Throat "story" is simply something for the us to suck on while the media institutions lie back and relax knowing that you don't have to feed much to the American people to make them happy.