Dita Pramudia (19202244049)

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Book Report

1. Title: All The President’s Men.

2. Author: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
3. Pages: 525
4. Summary:

The novel tells the story of a security guard at the Watergate complex who catches five thieves
who are caught infiltrating and flipping through archives at the Watergate hospitality complex
that is the base of the Democratic Party. Because it was considered just an ordinary intrusion
then the next morning, The Washington Post assigned new reporter Bob Woodward to the local
courthouse to investigate the case. In this theft case caught five suspects and he found the fact
that the five suspects had lawyers that they specifically hired. Woodward also learned that one of
the intruders was involved in CIA activities, one of which was Mr. Charles Colson (special
counsel to President Nixon), who used to work as a White House consultant and was also a CIA
writer and agent. The five suspects were immediately taken to court for processing and
questioning, hearing that Woodwart immediately went to court and listened and saw what was
going on in the courtroom. It was in this room that he met with a witness who was present, he
immediately asked for evidence or information about the case that was going on. But
unfortunately the witness dodged and asked Woodwart to stop his coverage of the case. With the
evidence still said not strong enough to reveal the fact Woodwart returned to the Office and
presented to the Editor-in-Chief but unfortunately the information he got instead became the
subject of the ravings of these people, to the point that he threatened to be fired from the
Washington Post. Woodwart, who has only been working there for six months, is still
underestimated by those around his workplace. This is where the story begins when he is still
ambitious to unpack the truth about the news that he can he write various evidence with his ICT
machine and put on the desk of one of the staff in his office but the paper he wrote was instead
carried by one of the other employees his shirt. Seeing this strangeness in his heart and he again
wrote the other evidence and again put the writing in the original place, and then he noticed one
of the employees who had taken his writing and it turned out that the employee again took
woodwart writing. Seeing that woodwart immediately approached the employee and asked what
the person meant to take his writing. After arriving at the senior employee's desk, he was
surprised that he took evidence of woodwart writing into his writing. woodwart was displeased
and took his writing back. woodwardpun returned to the table but the employee returned after he
asked about what Woodwart knew and from here the beginning of their friendship, Woodwart
befriended Carl Berninstein who also served as a reporter at the Washington Post. Carl
Bernstein, another reporter, was also assigned to cover the Watergate news with Woodward.
Woodward and bernstein didn't initially fit in but they worked well together. Executive editor
Ben bradlee always considered their news incomplete and unsuitable to be loaded on the front
page of the post. That's what prompted them to continue to gather information regarding the
case. Together with Carl Bernstein, Bob then searched for data with journalistic research
methods to find out the real facts. Every day they seek information about evidence that will
corroborate their news as people they know contact for information but no one wants to give as
much information as possible. It's not easy when the two journalists are tearing up documents,
notes, phone numbers, library cards just to get accurate data. It's not safe because they're under a
variety of threats that not only endanger his career, but also his life. Then one day Bob
Woodward had a secret meeting in the middle of the night in a parking lot with an anonymous
source called Deep Throat arranged with a flowerpot symbol placed on the balcony. It was
through this deep throat that Woodward managed to find a link between the funds the intruders
used and the president's committee. The two also managed to find a link between the fund and
the White House chief of staff, who was then held by H.R. Halderman. Woodward got some of
the information he needed in connection with the case. But Bradlee and others at the Post dislike
the reliance of two young journalists on unnamed sources like Deep Throat.

This forced journalists to obtain other sources to confirm the case. Then the next day they met a
co-worker who turned out to have been in contact with one of the suspects. They asked this
woman to provide information about people who had been involved in the white house. At first
they were also rejected by this woman but then this woman agreed and gave them the data they
needed. It was from this data that they began investigating the ongoing cases one by one from the
list of names they contacted and they went to but all refused to be questioned because some of
them did not believe that Woodwart and Carl were journalists from the Washington Post but
rather from the New York Times. Until one day there was a meeting of the Editors who talked
about the case they raised but because of the evidence carl and Woodwart got not much they
were angry. So heavy a burden they face not to mention the dangers that threaten their safety
because of this serious case. But this does not make them despair at all until one day Carl comes
back to the house of one of the former Officials in the white building and asks again about the
case, initially this woman does not want to see Carl again but Carl pretends to just come to visit
and drink coffee finally this woman let him in also from here Carl tried to scrape the information
with his ingenuity a little puzzle solved as well. Then Carl brought the evidence that he got to
Woodwart here they started writing but it turned out that the evidence that can still be solved also
in order to be a fact as clear as possible, and finally they agreed to return to see the woman. Once
the evidence was clear they immediately wrote the news in the Washington Post. After numerous
investigations and spawned several pieces of writing that did not actually show a connection
between the intruders and nixon, woodward and berstein finally began their coverage of nixon's
efforts to win the U.S. presidential election in an unnatural way. And it was from here that they
managed to solve the watergate scandal and bring down president Richard Nixon with news that
daily published in the Washington Post and ended with Nixon's resignation from his post as U.S.
president.

5. Review

I think this novel is very good because it contains a lot of moral messages. For example, the
work of a journalist who is not only limited to getting info and then immediately reported, but
journalists will try to find and reprint how the truth of the data they get and they look for other
facts to support the news they will publish. The most interesting thing in this film is when we try
to find information from the people involved in the case. It takes them a long time to gather the
data they need for the truth of the facts and data they have obtained before. The work of
journalists like this seems to do a research because indeed we have to look for the reliability and
validity of the data. Many meanings are attributed in this film, the most important thing is noted
the validity and reliability of a data is important and very supportive in the news. So in making
the news will convey the situation and the right conditions occur in the field, not something that
is in-there. We have to be creative in getting information from sources because not all sources
are willing to give us the information we need. We have to be smart to find loopholes to dig up
that valid information.