All the President’s MenIs What Made Me Want to Become a Journalist

Ben Bradlee was editor of the Washington Post when the newsprint did something phenomenal : It took down the Nixon governing in the Watergate scandal . I did n’t know anything about Bradlee or newspapers or the Washington Post when I watch the 1976 flick about the outrage — I only knew I need to work somewhere just like that .

I always knew I wanted to do something with words in my life story , but until I saw All the President ’s Men — see on cable’s length in the eye of the mean solar day one gamey school summer — I’d only had the vaguest ideas of what that might look like . This provided a pretty awing career path to aim to . As two rookie diarist hoping to make a name for themselves , Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman cease up chasing a story through dark parking garage . And their boss , Bradlee ( make for by Jason Robards ) , cheered them on , even though he knew he was putting his own career on the line . Man , who knew that writing could be so exciting ?

As an homage to Bradlee , who died yesterday , Slate posted this pivotal scenewhere Robards purportedly utterly embody Bradlee ’s straight - talking , go - with - your - gut demeanor ( apparently he was even more witty in real life sentence ) . My office certainly does n’t look anything close to that fluorescent - light newsroom with its ocean of theme - strew elementary - coloured desk , and I certainly have n’t had any anon. sources like Deep Throat ( maybe email ruined that ) . But watching this clip , I felt that same thrill that rippled through my brain as a adolescent . Writing for a living is about taking a fortune on a story and possess someone really smart who ’s got your back . And then — and to be clear , this does n’t always hap — it ’s about how good it feels to get it right . [ Amazon ]

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