Why aren't the news media holding the White House accountable like they did during the Nixon/Watergate era?
Just minutes before, she had described how — as a college student working part time at CBS — she was briefly in charge of the empty Washington bureau on Oct. 20, 1973, when news of the “Saturday Night Massacre” began to break: President Richard Nixon had fired the special prosecutor. Forty-six years later, Zirinsky really is in charge at CBS; she was named president of the network early this year.
“We are holding this White House accountable — this is our job every day,” she said, with conviction ringing in her voice.