His entire career demonstrates amazing access to intelligence sources. The Trouble with America's Newspapers. Times Books - Random House, 1994. How Donald Trump led reporters by the nose with calculated antics. Newspapers miss the HUD scandal.
Newspapers miss a much bigger savings and loan scandal.
Bad reporting on race relations. Hiring new reporters by skin color, which excuses more bad reporting on race relations. Plagiarism, fabrication, and other ethical issues. Reporting on the private lives of public figures. The gay issue.