Propping Up A Tottering Media

It is interesting that the identity of the government informant who exposed
the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration is only now being
revealed. It is happening at a time when the Main Stream Media, in
particular the Newsweek organization, is undergoing a crisis in credibility
owing to its misuse of sources which implicated the U.S. government in
alleged willful desecration of the Koran by stuffing pages of the book in
the toilet. This falsehood, reported as fact by Newsweek is reported as
having caused rioting and deaths abroad. Newsweek later retracted the
story.

In revealing the identity of the informant known as "Deep Throat" at this
time, is the main stream media trying to remind the public of its past
accomplishments, and trying to shore up its crumbling credibility? I think
so.