. >> i think it's a shame just because it happened in boardman park, we don't know that it's boardmand that's disparaging to boardman as a whole. >> reporter: police say the most recent incident happened behind the shops of boardman park gathering 100 teens and young adults to watch others fight. some of those at a meeting of the local pta says it comes down to a lack of parental responsibility. >> you need to keep track of your kids and you need to know your kids' friends. if my daughter starts talking about someone i don't know, i ask yes, who is this person? i need to know their parents. >> they're offering their assistance in determining if any of their students were shown in the videos and what roles any of them may have played. >> we have as many as 25 officers that work in the schools on any given day. so the chances are great that they would be able to identify not only the current student, but former students. >> with police calling saturday's incident only the latest in these local brawls, some wonder if the people involved here aren't simply copying what they've been seeing

i'm david boardman, executive editor of the seattle times and incoming vice president of as & e. every profession has its totemic event that inspires succeeding generations. and in american journalism, it was of course watergate. as professor mike shutsen of columbia puts it, the coverage of watergate altered the map of journalism and led to the reinvigoration of muck making. investigative journal had gone dorm ant. that all changed beginningjune of 1972 as two young reporters, one a clean cut, christian college midwesterner just two years out of the navy, the other a long-haired, chain smoking college dropout from silver spring maryland began with a fairly routine night cop story and turned it into what stands still today as the high water mark of american journalism. in fact, i'm confident in saying that this single piece of reporting is responsible for many of us in this room choosing the profession that we love so much. on this day we're here to both honor the 40th anniversary of the work of those two reporters and to use it to explore how journalism has changed in the decade