why fight

Elsie 2022-04-22 07:01:23

This movie fits the bill. Let us see the persistence of the media people. It is the duty of the media to insist on publishing the truth at the risk that the newspaper may go out of business and the writer may be sentenced.

Impressed by the following

1. When Kay asked his friend why he spends a lot of money on the editorial department, he said, "Excellent reporters will have excellent reports. Quality and interests are directly proportional."

2. Kay's growth

I am used to seeing all kinds of strong women played by Aunt Mei, and Aunt Mei played this role very full. At the beginning, I was cowardly and timid, and I made a lot of preparations. I still couldn't say it on important occasions, and I was constantly questioned and denied. At a critical moment, she seemed unsure that she could make the right decision and needed to listen to her friends' advice. However, this is a woman who, when faced with a choice about the survival of the newspaper and the responsibilities of a media person, insisted on her own idea when everyone said no, including her most trusted friend who also disagreed. Chose the responsibilities of a media person and choose to publish the truth.

Ben's wife told the truth when evaluating the matter, and Kay was the bravest one in this decision. She was truly brave when she made such a decision when she was constantly being denied, being treated as air, and faced with difficult choices in the face of the newspaper she regarded as her life.

3. At the end of the film, when the Supreme Court's ruling came out, the last paragraph was very touching. “The founding fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.”

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Extended Reading

The Post quotes

  • Robert McNamara: If you publish, you'll get the very worst of him, the Colsons and the Ehrlichmans and he'll crush you.

    Kay Graham: I know, he's just awful, but I...

    Robert McNamara: [Interrupting and getting extremely angry] He's a... Nixon's a son of a bitch! He hates you, he hates Ben, he's wanted to ruin the paper for years and you will not get a second chance, Kay. The Richard Nixon I know will muster the full power of the presidency and if there's a way to destroy your paper, by God, he'll find it.

  • Roger Clark: What if we wait? What if we hold off on printing today. Instead we call the Attorney General and we tell them that we intend to print on Sunday. That way we give them and us time to figure out the legality of all of it, while the Court in New York decides the Times case.

    Ben Bradlee: Are you suggesting we alert the Attorney General to the fact that we have these documents, that we're going to print, in a few days?

    Roger Clark: Well, yes, that is the idea.

    Ben Bagdikian: Yeah, well, outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.

    Fritz Beebe: Oh boy!