如果要说哪一份报纸能代表美国,很多人会提出《纽约时报》。然而近年来《华盛顿邮报》后来居上的势头非常迅猛,这个势头始于15年前的“水门事件”。当时这家报纸的两名记者伍德沃德和范斯坦因在发现线索后穷追不舍,终于搞出了牵连到白宫最高领导人的一大政治丑闻,最后迫使尼克松总统辞职。这两位名噪一时的记者事后还写出了《总统的诡计》一书,并由几位著名明星领衔主演,将其情节搬上了银幕。《华盛顿邮报》由此而开始声誉鹊起。去年11月以后,美国政界又一丑闻“东窗事 If you want to say which newspaper can represent the United States, many people will put forward the “New York Times.” In recent years, however, the Washington Post has gained so much momentum following the Watergate incident 15 years ago. At a time when Woodward and Van Stein, two reporters in the newspaper, were chasing after finding clues, they finally came up with a major political scandal that linked to the White House top leaders and finally forced Nixon’s resignation. The two notorious journalists also wrote the book titled “The President’s Trickery,” starring several famous celebrities and bringing the plot to the screen. As a result, the Washington Post started to gain its reputation. After November of last year, another scandal in the U.S. political circles has “gone a long way.”