• ABC News Campus Chatter, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:30 PM

"How do you redeem journalism? How do you get better at it?" asked Bob Woodward, the investigative journalist known for breaking the Watergate story. "And I think some of the answer is slowing down- don't be in such a hurry to put out the sound bite."

Woodward, who appeared at an Austin panel asking "Could the media break a story like Watergate today?", debunked today's "curse" of celebrity journalism -- the "Paris Hilton factor and Kardashian equation."

"It should be our job not to give equal time, not to give 12 inches in a newspaper story about what Donald Trump says and 12 inches to what the Secretary of State of Hawaii says," said Woodward's partner in reporting the Watergate cover-up, Carl Bernstein."Then our agenda becomes manufactured controversy as a means of getting more readers, more viewers, and we skew the political debate."

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