Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two young members of the Washington Post’s staff around 1972, unveiled the story of the Watergate Scandal after intense investigation and research of the sensitive topic.

The two reporters discovered that a team of burglars had been arrested in the offices of the Democratic National Committee. They unraveled a long entanglement of people involved and how they influenced the crime.

The two reporters were thoroughly interested in the case and were determined to discover what was going on. Some believe that the investigation they underwent and the work they did changed the media forever, however it truly affected politics.

While some believe that the Watergate exposure changed the media, I do not believe that is the primary method by which the media has changed over the years. According to Eric Magaña, “I think what has changed the media is money. Big corporations run the media and that has more of a significant effect on the media.”

Bernstein and Woodward put together a well done and effective report that proved to the world that politicians will have to be more careful in their attempts to cheat into office if they want to be successful. It proved to us today that if another politician were to cheat his or her way into office, it would be exposed and they would suffer for their crimes.

Politics were changed forever with the Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate Scandal because it raised a warning signal to those who could have been plotting their own scandals. Knowing what happened to Nixon and his presidency after his story got out was a key motive for other politicians to choose not to take a crime-based path on the way into an office.

If I were a politician plotting to sabotage my competition using sensitive documents I would definitely ease up those plots if I were to see that even the president was caught.