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Carl Bernstein (born February 14 , 1944 ) is an American Journalist who, as an investigative reporter for '' The Washington Post '' along with Bob Woodward , broke the story of the Watergate Break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon . For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work earned the ''Post'' a Pulitzer Prize For Public Service in 1973.

Bernstein quit ''The Washington Post'' in 1976. He worked as a senior correspondent for the ABC Network , taught at New York University , and contributed to '' Time ''. In 1981, he returned to the ''Post'' as assistant managing editor for investigations.

Bernstein authored two books with Woodward: ''.

Bernstein graduated from Montgomery Blair High School .

Carl Bernstein's second wife was Nora Ephron ; a character from her book and movie '' Heartburn '' was a thinly-veiled portrayal of him. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of '' All The President's Men ''. He was also portrayed by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 Comedy Film '' Dick ''.


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  • "The media is more powerful than our government institutions, but we are squandering that power." (1999)

  • "We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."



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