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Before Watergate the media generally saw senior politicians as friends to be helped, not enemies to be mercilessly hunted down. Also a good many things that in OTL 2010 would be "scandal" were simply SOP, and ignored as such, until Watergate. If there was no Watergate or Nixon was never elected how long could this state of affairs last? Part of it has to do with mass media proliferation but not all.
I'll detail the precise definition of "friend" when we get to the 1960s.