Barry Sussman

After almost 40 years of denials by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, it was revealed this week that one of them, Bernstein, had interviewed a Watergate grand juror in 1972.

The indisputable new evidence is in the form of a New York Magazine excerpt from a book that...

In his new book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat, Max Holland takes on chief aspects of the Watergate myth: that an idealistic, well-placed and mysterious source fed information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, thereby leading the American press to one of its greatest achievements, the...

Voter turnout, mostly overlooked by the press, should be a main question after the Jan. 21 South Carolina Republican primary. Turnout until now has been poor. Instead of attracting voters, the presidential candidates have been repelling them.

For a long time now, Senate and House Republicans have said their main...

I got an email from my nephew Daniel Sussman, a screenwriter. He has been living in Greece for a while and thus has a calm, detached perspective on what's going on in American politics.

He wrote:

"Okay, maybe this is naive, but...

"Just about every sane person is (or...

A New York Times/CBS News poll, released Dec. 7, showed Fox News Channel viewers in Iowa nearly twice as likely to oppose Mitt Romney as people who don't get their news from the Murdoch/Ailes network. There are logical explanations for this in addition to biased, brainwashing coverage by...

Obituaries of Kenneth Dahlberg, who died at age 94 on Oct. 4th, pointed out that he unwittingly played a key role in the unraveling of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal coverup. That's an understatement. The "Dahlberg check" story was the single most important contribution the Washington Post made in...

Reporters and editors, based on past experience, should examine the extent to which stock market speculators and the oil companies are pushing gas prices to the $4 mark. For guidance, here are some questions and leads from experts who wrote about the subject for Nieman Watchdog in the period 2005...

The newest wave of massive, secret campaign financing is increasingly being likened to the illegal corporate campaign contributions that were part of the Watergate scandal (see Jill Abramson of the New York Times and Bloomberg's Albert Hunt). The comparison is apt -- but the problem actually...

Dear Chairman Waxman,

I see where you commended the FCC for its new broadband plan. Maybe you should take another look? As chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and as a highly regarded investigator, you may find deep corruption and fraud in what...

I wrote recently about the outrageous fraud of Republican leaders citing public opinion as a reason to oppose health care reform. They do this to make it appear as though they're the people's party, and because it's difficult to state their real reason, which is to bring down President...

A new survey in Afghanistan by ABC News, the BBC and ARD German TV shows massive disgust with corruption in Kabul and the provinces, anger and contempt for the Taliban, and a majority of the population insecure and living in primitive conditions with widespread poverty and deprivation.
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Economist James Galbraith says America’s economic collapse “was the product of wide-scale criminal fraud” but that the press, instead of investigating it aggressively, has treated it as a ‘boys will be boys” phenomenon.

Galbraith, a University of Texas professor and author of seven books, notes that during the savings and...