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Ever since Deep Throat was revealed to be Mark Felt, the second in command at Richard Nixon's FBI, Watergate journalism has seemed different from its portrayal in All the President's Men. Instead of Deep Throat serving as the Washington Post's clandestine informant from the corridors of power, journalist Bob Woodward has become cast as the FBI's mole, planted inside Washington Post. Instead of a crusading watchdog outing a corrupt administration, the press looks like a tool manipulated in an institutional power struggle between a power-hungry Oval Office and its turf-jealous secret police. "No, no I am not Deep Throat," was Felt's lying soundbite from CBS' own Face the Nation in1976 that Bob Orr aired in his obituary for the man, dead at 95, whose "whispered words helped topple a President." Felt leaves a memoir A G-Man's Life.
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