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All the President's Men · 1976 — 第 18 / 18 章 · 3'38" · B2

White House Attacks the Post, Explained：shabby journalism

Sloan denies naming Haldeman, and the White House returns fire, calling the Post's reporting "shabby journalism". Then Bernstein and Woodward phone a source, pressing him to confirm or deny — and he goes silent, cold. The real question stops being whether the story is right and becomes whether they've been set up.

あらすじ

Sloan gives a deposition and flatly denies ever naming Haldeman, while at the White House the press secretary and campaign manager tear into the Washington Post for "shabby journalism" and a "double standard". Later, Woodward and Bernstein call a source who stonewalls them and swears at them, leaving the reporters to wonder if they've been set up.

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depositionunequivocalthe free pressshabby journalism

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このシーンの表現

shabby journalism

shoddy, low-standard reporting

At the briefing Ziegler brands the Post's reporting as shabby, dismissing its standards wholesale.

He called it shabby journalism and refused to answer.

このシーンの他の表現

  • deposition

    out-of-court sworn testimony

  • unequivocal

    leaving no doubt

  • the free press

    an independent press

  • double standard

    a rule applied unevenly

  • come off the story

    to drop a story

このシーンのメモ一覧

70 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B1comment on something

to give a remark on

REPORTER 1: Would you comment on your testimony before the grand jury?
表現 · C1an unequivocal no

a flat, total no

- I'd like my attorney to answer that. - The answer is an unequivocal no.
表現 · B2implicate someone in something

to involve someone in wrongdoing

Mr. Sloan did not implicate Mr. Haldeman in that testimony at all.
表現 · B2by the name of X

named, called

...who's the editor of the Washington Post by the name of Ben Bradlee.
文法 · B2who's the editor of the Washington Post

relative clause: The who-clause identifies the man as the Post's editor; the main clause is just You have a man.

...who's the editor of the Washington Post by the name of Ben Bradlee.
表現 · B2shabby journalism

shoddy, low-standard reporting

At the briefing Ziegler brands the Post's reporting as shabby, dismissing its standards wholesale.

The shabby journalism that is being practiced...
文法 · C1No sooner had

inversion: The negative opener forces had before the subject, an emphatic inversion.

No sooner had Ziegler finished...
表現 · C1third-person hearsay

secondhand rumor

MacGREGOR: Using innuendo, third-person hearsay...
表現 · B2scare headlines

alarmist headlines

...and huge scare headlines...
表現 · B1visible for all to see

plain for everyone to see

...and its celebrated double standard is today visible for all to see.
スラング · B2the hell

on earth — An intensifier in questions or anger, too casual for formal settings.

What the hell are you talking about? I'll deny everything.
表現 · B2come off a story

to drop a story

Checking with their source, the reporters promise to drop the story if they were wrong.

If we made a mistake, we'll come off the story.
文法 · B2If we made a mistake

conditional clause: The if-clause uses the past made with a future main clause, a normal real condition.

If we made a mistake, we'll come off the story.
発音seen talking to

Run seen and talking together and keep to weak.

I can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards.
スラング · B2bastards

jerks, scum — A strong insult, used only in anger, never in polite settings.

I can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards.
表現 · B2get to someone

to pressure or buy someone

What are you afraid of? Who got to you?
発音being set up

In American speech the t in set flaps toward a d sound.

Are we being set up?
表現 · B2a setup

a trap or frame-up

Then they're just setting us up. Then the whole thing was a setup.
スラング · A2Gonna

going to — Casual speech for going to; avoid it in writing.

More denunciations. Gonna have to make a statement, Ben.
表現 · B1give a speech

to deliver a speech

One senator just gave a speech slurring us 57 times in 20 minutes.
発音slurring us

Link slurring and us into one smooth run.

One senator just gave a speech slurring us 57 times in 20 minutes.
発音didn't know

The t in didn't is swallowed before know.

I knew we had enemies, but I didn't know we were this popular.

「White House Attacks the Post」を読み解く

What's really going on

The White House response isn't really about a single inaccurate sentence — it's a pressure campaign aimed at the whole story. Ziegler calls it "shabby journalism" and MacGregor invokes a "celebrated double standard", both trying to make the Post itself the issue rather than what the Post found. The phone call is the scene's real gut punch: a source who once fed the reporters information now won't even be seen with them, snapping that he "can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards". That reversal — "Are we being set up?" — turns the investigation inward. The reporters' working assumption, that sources can be leaned on, collapses; from here they can't tell a planted lie from an honest lead.

Theme

PowerThe White House uses its authority and its press office to discredit the reporters rather than answer what they found.
DeceptionA source's denial makes the reporters suspect the whole leak was a setup, blurring who is lying to whom.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Come off the story means to drop it if wrong.
  • A double standard is uneven justice.
  • The source turns cold to avoid being seen.
  • Ziegler praises a free press and attacks it at once.

発音のポイント

  • seen talking to — Run seen and talking together and keep to weak.
  • being set up — In American speech the t in set flaps toward a d sound.
  • slurring us — Link slurring and us into one smooth run.
  • didn't know — The t in didn't is swallowed before know.
I knew we had enemies, but I didn't know we were this popular.

Bradlee's dry joke: the flood of attacks means the reporting is hitting something real.

If we made a mistake, we'll come off the story.

Bernstein offers to retract the story — a test: if the source denies it, they'll pull it.

I can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards.

The source refuses to be linked to the reporters at all, even by sight — he's cutting them off.

The hallmark of the Post's campaign is hypocrisy...

MacGregor frames the Post's reporting as a deliberate, dishonest campaign rather than journalism.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the source refuse to talk to Woodward and Bernstein?

He's scared. Being seen with the reporters could tie him to the leak, so he denies everything and warns that he can't even be seen talking to them. His refusal is less a denial than a signal that someone has leaned on him.

Are Woodward and Bernstein actually being set up?

That's what the reporters fear. After the source denies the grand-jury story, Bernstein suggests there was no mistake — meaning the earlier tip may have been planted to make the Post print something false.

Why does the White House attack the Post instead of answering the story?

Because attacking the messenger is easier than addressing the message. Ziegler and MacGregor call the reporting "shabby journalism" and a "double standard" to cast doubt on the Post itself.

What does "come off the story" mean?

"Come off the story" is newsroom jargon for pulling back a story — dropping it or withdrawing from the reporting. Bernstein offers to do exactly that if the source can prove they got it wrong.

Who is Sloan and why does his denial matter?

Sloan is a campaign official whose testimony denied linking Haldeman to the fund. The Post had reported that he named Haldeman, so his denial makes their story look wrong — and makes them suspect a setup.

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