Wait a minute, is Deep Throat a movie for the Ultra-Orthodox crowd?
 

But seriously, the reason this is important is that many people who supported Nixon speculated that Woodward and Bernstein fabricated Deep Throat to make their story work because they wanted either to help their carreers or hurt Nixon, or both. This very much puts an end to those theories. They broke a very important story, but the sad legacy is that since then the press has been trying to do the impossible which is to dig for an even bigger scandal where somethimes none exists. Hence Monicagate (the real scandal, of course, was the perjury), Pretzelgate, Haliburtongate, Texas National Guardgate etc... It's not enough to just tell the truth now; the press always smells blood in the water.
 

Pretzelgate????
 

OK, maybe I was stretching it a little there...
 

W. Mark Felt is a weasel. His motivation was vindictiveness. His anonymity was cowardice. His coming out now before he dies is a desire for celebrity.
 

And yet, without him, we couldn't have had the hilarious movie "Dick."