deep throat

When I was a wee lad in high school journalism and the instructor was carefully indoctrinating us with the idea that the press is the only check on the power of the elected elite and they have a responsibility to "speak truth to power" (which is the most annoying phrase in circulation) one of the lessons we were supposed to inhale deeply was the mythic journalistic exploits of Woodward and Bernstein.
We read the book, we watched the movie, we attempted to land our own stories about government corruption at any level.

At this point the MSM is reliving its glory days, when two of their own took down a sitting president instead and the word "journalist" conjured up images of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman playing Woodward and Bernstein.

What does the word "journalist" conjure up today?