Bidengate is the anti-Watergate

The media loves to self-mythologise. It sees itself as the body crucially responsible for “speaking truth to power”. This self-image crystallised in the aftermath of Watergate; in it, the press served as bold, brave, fearless, and non-partisan defenders of truth and the ordinary man. Now, if that self-image were created via the successful take down of one American president, it has been undone by a kind of anti-Watergate: the recent, failed effort to keep another one in post.