Monday, 15 February 2021 BY MAE CHEW To what extent did the press play a central role in the Watergate scandal? This is a question that historians have been contending with for many years. There are some that claim that if not for the media, the Watergate affair may not have become a scandal in the first place. They argue that the press – be it journalists like Woodward & Bernstein, or the networks like PBS, who famously televised the political fallout ‘from gavel-to-gavel’ –