Carl Bernstein Joins CNN as Analyst
Watergate Journalist to Contribute to Cable News Network’s 2008 Election Coverage
By Alex Weprin & John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/3/2007 5:48:00 PM
Iconic journalist Carl Bernstein, no stranger to CNN's airwaves already, will be even less of one.
Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal with colleague Bob Woodward, will join CNN as an analyst for the 2008 election season.
“CNN has demonstrated time and again a sincere effort to go beyond the political horserace,” Bernstein said in a statement. “My hope is to examine the real lives and records of the candidates and look at how these people -- and their political machines -- try to win votes, influence the media and use the electoral system to their maximum advantage. I’m thrilled at the opportunity to have CNN’s broad reach in doing so.”
As part of the agreement, Bernstein will appear on CNN’s full lineup of broadcast and election coverage.
Earlier this year, Bernstein wrote the book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is also a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and he co-authored (with Woodward) All the President’s Men and The Final Days.
