It wasn't long before Ben Bradlee, the newly appointed executive editor of The Washington Post, came calling.

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Remember all those lines from Ben Bradlee, editor of the Post, to cub reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?

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Surely, that is, it is the case that in real life Ben Bradlee goaded on his reporters to go after Nixon, rather than provide the path of most heavy resistance.

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Eun saw content in terms of metrics and promoted what he called "The AOL Way, " a system for increasing productivity and page views that was less Ben Bradlee than Henry Ford.

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