On Friday’s episode of Washington Week with The Atlantic, Dan Balz of The Washington Post joined moderator Jeffrey Goldberg for a special conversation about Balz's retirement after 47 years with the paper and how politics has changed over the 12 elections and eight presidencies he's covered."
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Over the course of the 50 years that I've been doing this, I think that the most important shift is that, with each kind of iteration of that, politics has gotten tougher, coarser and meaner," Balz told Goldberg.
"I think this is a generally optimistic country, and I think people want the system to work and to succeed," Balz added. "But if you chart it, I mean if you chart trust in government, it fell off the cliff during Vietnam and Watergate, and it's basically been down ever since."
Congrats on an amazing career Dan B! Been listening & reading your work, for, as Jeffrey said “ balanced “ and wise reporting. Appreciate your ethos & craft!