Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter who with Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story. His "The CIA and the Media" (Rolling Stone, 20 October 1977) named some 400 journalists who had worked with the agency. Mae, who calls the magazine "Rolling Stones", builds the first half of No. 288 on the article before it is out.
Across the broadcasts
Read straight in 1973 as the reporter who broke the Bremer errand, four years before Mae turns on him
June 25, 1973
Mae credits the Post team for the week's key report and builds on it without reservation.
"this is the articles by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein"Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 2 (25 Jun 1973), 10:06
Arrives as a source Mae both uses and distrusts: his list of CIA-linked outlets frames the program, and his silences frame her critique
September 26, 1977
Mae flags the article ahead of publication and makes it the frame for the whole program.
She means Rolling Stone magazine; the article appeared in the issue of 20 October 1977.
"I want to mention briefly that next week Rolling Stones is going to have out that article, October the 4th is the date for it to be presented on the news media, the 400 persons in the news media that worked with the CIA or still work with the CIA, actually."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 1:23
Mae measures Bernstein by what his Watergate books leave out, the events she ties to the 1972 election.
"And remember, in their book on Watergate and the second book, The Final Days, they never went into the subject of Howard Hughes at the time of Watergate or the killing of J. Edgar Hoover or the murder of Mary Jo Kopechny, or the shooting of George Wallace, all of which had to do with the election of 1972, and all of these events had Watergate defendants' names linked into those events."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 7:43
Mae takes the article as a starting point, not a verdict: useful for its names, short of where they lead.
"But it's a good article for what it tells you, and then we have to take it to the next step."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 8:31