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McGovern. Also found guilty of wiretapping and conspiracy WEAVER, G. DAVID H.
Liddy, chief lawyer for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), and
former White House consultant E. Howard Hunt, Jr. A series of investigative
reports by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward de-
tailed links between the burglars and Nixon's reelection bid as well other "dirty
tricks" by CREEP. Revelations led to the resignations of Nixon's chief of staff,
H. R. Haldeman, and domestic affairs adviser John Erlichman. A special pros-
ecutor was named, and a Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign
Activities began televised hearings. The testimony of White House counsel John
Dean implicated Nixon in a cover-up of the Watergate burglary, and tape re-
cordings of conversations in the Oval Office were revealed. The tapes proved
Nixon's knowledge and complicity in the cover-up. His resignation August 9,
1974, came after impeachment motions were instituted in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
SOURCES: Sam Ervin, Jr., The Whole Truth: The Watergate Conspiracy, 1980; Michael
Schudson, Watergate in American Memory, 1992.
Marc Edge

WEAVER, DAVID H. (1946- ) is the Roy W. Howard Professor of Journalism
at Indiana University, where he has been on the faculty since 1974. A graduate
of Indiana, he received his master's and doctorate from the University of North
Carolina.
He has done important work in the role of agenda setting and who sets the
agenda in presidential campaigns. He and Indiana colleague G. C. Wilhoit have
done the definitive study of newspeople in the United States. The study deals
with political leaning of newspeople as well as their perspective of their role.
Weaver and Wilhoit also coauthored Newsroom Guide to Polls and Surveys,
an important reference source for newspeople who deal with surveys.

SOURCES: David H. Weaver and G. C. Wilhoit, The American Journalist in the 1990s:
U.S. News People at the End of an Era, 1996; Who's Who in America, 1997-1998.
Guido H. Stempel HI

WESTLEY, BRUCE H. (1915-1990) was coauthor of the Westley-MacLean
model, which first appeared in Journalism Quarterly in the Winter 1957 issue.
The model emphasizes purposive communication or the notion that communi-
cation decisions are not random but are made for a reason. He also was the
founding editor of Journalism Monographs, which first appeared in 1966. He
remained editor until 1982. He also served as associate editor of Journalism
Quarterly with responsibility for theory and methodology articles from 1963 to
1973. Part of his contribution to communication research was his copy editing
skill exercised on behalf of both those publications. He also wrote the most
successful editing textbook of his era.