From Muckrakers To Buckrakers

Three decades after their reporting led to President Nixon's resignation, the pair have sold their notebooks and other materials from the Watergate years to the University of Texas at Austin. They asked for -- and received -- five-million bucks for the sale. And so they have added to one of journalism's finest moments a new and sleazy chapter.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm all for journalists making money. But there's something about this particular transaction that doesn't sit right, and I wish that "Woodstein" hadn't done it.
· Watergate [Tompaine]