"News serves the people, not those in power?!"

Laila 2022-04-23 07:02:00

This is one of my favorite films. The dazzling cast, the subtlety of the plot, the drama between the actor and the actress, and the emotional tension that erupted in a few moments are never tire of watching. In fact, I may have actually watched it a hundred times. I always open this film every night in the fragmented time, drag the progress bar to the most exciting climax points, and savor the delicate joy brought by the art of film. .

After the full score, I want to talk about some things outside the film. Yes, I love this film very much, but for the film "news is for the people, not for those in power." The heart of the heart-warming sentence Language - snort. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution paints a beautiful vision, in which "press freedom oversight of those in power, and service to the people" really does it? In the decades following the Watergate milestone, both the Post and the mainstream American media seem to have confirmed: "When reporting international news, if it has an adverse impact on the United States, justice can be lost; when reporting domestic news, if If it is not good for the parties involved in the media, then the objective can also be discarded.”

Maybe we did worse, but in reality they were by no means as good as in the movies.

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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!