Watergate legend Bob Woodward says Monday’s revelation by The New York Times that two of its journalists had a tip on the Watergate scandal that he and Carl Bernstein later exposed is not as important as what they would have done with the tip.

“Watergate wasn’t about a tip,” Woodward told Editor & Publisher on Tuesday. “It was about extensive reporting and getting information you can put in the paper. They decided not to do the reporting. We get this idea that this is about one story or one source or one tip, it is not.”

The Times story Monday reported that former reporter Robert M. Smith had revealed that two months after the June 17, 1972 Watergate burglary, “the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, L. Patrick Gray, disclosed explosive aspects of the case, including the culpability of the former attorney general, John Mitchell, and hinted at White House involvement.”

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