There's certainly one thing I've loved seeing every news story try to sneak into the story:
Washington Post: “A blend of…’deep background" -- and the title of a notorious pornographic movie.”
New York Times: “But he was rechristened by a Post editor in honor of the pornographic film of that name that was then a national sensation.”
New York Post: “Woodward, who gave Felt his nickname after the popular porn movie "Deep Throat…” (from a story with the wonderful headline “Deep Throat Coughs It Up.”)
Philadelphia Daily News: “the identity of "Deep Throat" - nicknamed for the controversial porno flick of the same era - ranked not far behind the JFK assassination…”
Marketwatch: “When Bernstein spoke at my alma mater, Stony Brook, one student stepped to a microphone and asked him [who Deep Throat was]. The room fell quiet and Bernstein said (without smiling), ‘Linda Lovelace.’”
When Lovelace spoke at my alma mater, she was not asked about Carl Bernstein.
And one more thing I noticed last night: MSNBC spent essentially its entire primetime talking about the Deep Throat revelation, with professional political junkie Chris Matthews clearly enjoying himself- he was having so much fun he probably could’ve stayed on the air talking about it for 25 hours if they’d asked him. I switched over to Fox, and O’Reilly was bitching loudly about some dead girl and how it’s somehow the ACLU’s fault, and then about the Michael Jackson case, and later about something Tom Cruise said. And they say it’s liberals who are too emotional, and too negative.
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 1, 2005 08:06 PM