While Watergate remains famous as the scandal that brought down Nixon, a lesser known figure in it was Martha Mitchell. The wife of attorney-general John Mitchell, she tried to expose the coverup but got scorned as delusional. Sure enough, she turned out to be right.
The Academy Award-nominated documentary "The Martha Mitchell Effect" tells this story. One of the things that we should take from it is to be careful about casually scorning anything that we disagree with as fake news. It's one thing if a statement has no connection to reality - i.e., Jewish space lasers - but investigations into wrongdoing at the hands of the powerful should get taken seriously. To be certain, we see how Nixon tried to gaslight Martha Mitchell (never mind that Tricky Dick was also having the FBI spy on John Lennon during this time).
Anyway, worth seeing.
The Academy Award-nominated documentary "The Martha Mitchell Effect" tells this story. One of the things that we should take from it is to be careful about casually scorning anything that we disagree with as fake news. It's one thing if a statement has no connection to reality - i.e., Jewish space lasers - but investigations into wrongdoing at the hands of the powerful should get taken seriously. To be certain, we see how Nixon tried to gaslight Martha Mitchell (never mind that Tricky Dick was also having the FBI spy on John Lennon during this time).
Anyway, worth seeing.