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Q According to Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer in Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974, the Watergate journalism “model set by [Robert] Woodward and [Carl] Bernstein revolutionized the world of reporting” (Ch. 1, LOC 396 in Kindle). In your short response, write no more than one paragraph explaining how. Include one specific example.

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According to Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer in Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974, the Watergate journalism “model set by [Robert] Woodward and [Carl] Bernstein revolutionized the world of reporting” by breaking out the Watergate story that led to the eventual resignation of the then president, Nixon . By coming out with the story, Woodward and Bernstein inspired a new era of investigative journalism and made journalism a respectable career, to the extent that applications to journalism schools were at the highest numbers at the time.