The history of Watergate, nearly 50 years later, might read neutral. The reporting at the time was hardly that. The press hated Nixon about as much as they hate

The history of Watergate, nearly 50 years later, might read neutral. The reporting at the time was hardly that. The press hated Nixon about as much as they hated Reagan and Bush and Trump. At the time there was no popular alternative to NBC, ABC, CBS so as an average TV news viewer you wern't aware of other points of view unless you actively sought them.