Watergate reporter disgusted with media

Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, says the news media are becoming a "freak show."

"We're increasingly losing our way," said Bernstein, who is the executive editor of the Web site Voter.com. "(Journalism) has less and less to do with truth and reality, and totally lacks context. Media bears little resemblance to the communities it serves."

"It's becoming a freak show," he said Thursday during an appearance at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Bernstein and fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Watergate scandal, which led to President Nixon's resignation.