Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.