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Hello, week number two.

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Welcome.

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So last week we discussed about
the correlation between technological

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innovation and the media and we

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saw that whenever you had some
new items, new technological innovation

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appearing the media industry was
able to benefit from the innovation

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and adopt these technological
innovation now what we are going

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to see is the profession and the
job as a journalist how it evolved

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through The years and for that
we have our first document which
 
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is document one in the booklet
I sent you and Here we see through

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the eyes of Character Carl Bernstein

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How the profession evolved first
we've got to explain who Carl Bernstein

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is Carl Bernstein Was born in the
first half of the 20th century

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In 1944 to be more precise and
he's a journalist.

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He's a very famous journalist and
he's very well known for For 

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having taken part in the writing
of The Watergate scandal.

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What is the Watergate?

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This has to be explained the Watergate
Scandal we are in the 70s 1972

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to be more precise The international
context is of course The war in

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Vietnam and The United States is
taking part fighting against the

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Vietnamese and lots of people lots
of Americans are Getting killed.

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This is hidden by the government
of the United States of the time

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the president in the United States
is Nixon Nixon is Republican and

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he's scared that the American
population is going to Come to

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the knowledge of what is really
happening there.

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So he's going to start spying on
The opposition the Democratic Party

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we all understand that in the United
States There are two major political

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parties the Republicans and the
Democrats So Nixon starts spying

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on the Democrats and Watergate
to be precise is the name of the

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building that used to be The
headquarters of the Democratic

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Party So this is revealed and it
is a scandal So Nixon for that

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was very close to be impeached.

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We understand that in the American
system a president Can be dismissed

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Through an impeachment and this
was, this is what nearly happened

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to Nixon There were other occasions
in the history of the United States

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when we came very close to Impeachment,
I think here of course of Bill Clinton.

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We had the Monica Lewinsky, Monica's
affair with the Monica affair In

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in the 90s, so let's come back
to the point here with Nixon who

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is spying on the Democrats and
it is revealed and there is this

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attempt from Congress and the Chief
Justice to impeach Nixon In order

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not to be impeached he is going
to resign Writing about this made

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Karl Bernstein very famous But
the article we have here document

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one page eight is not about The

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The Watergate affair it's more
about Him as a journalist and how

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he evolved and we also get lots
of information about What it is

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to be a journalist or what it was
like in the first half of the

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20th century so What we learn in

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this text is first his background
His family was more a communist

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family living in the United States
We learned that he's not educated

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in terms of higher education So
it also tells us that at the time

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it was not required To go to university
to become a journalist he started

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as a reporter and he learned on
the job So this is the first thing

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an other thing in the text we learn
is that His social background his

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social background is Working-class,
okay.

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Yeah, this is what he says In one
of the sentences when he says that

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there is a change now going on
Because the profession of journalist

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tended to be more Attractive to
those who Belonged to the working-class

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and now you have more the elites
Okay Now it's more required to

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go through or to have a first degree
from university to become Journalist,

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so what we can see here is how
the profession Evolved and because

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of that we have also to think about
the future evolution of the profession

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Now we see lots of bloggers We
see lots of people who maybe are

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not or were not trained as journalist
but Are working as journalist

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or are doing a very similar job
Using their expertise Okay,

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I invite you to think about this
and about the different threat That

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the profession is facing today