See it. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks are excellent, the film is exciting, but most importantly, the movie is a lesson in First Amendment freedoms and the need for an independent press to safeguard our liberties. That’s a lesson we need to learn again.
What bothered me at the time of the Pentagon Papers case that still upsets me is that the Supreme Court decision upholding press freedom came on a 6-3 vote. Three Supreme Court justices were willing to curtail the First Amendment.
We now have a president who also doesn’t understand the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, we also have a major portion of the media (think Fox News) a Congress (think McConnell and Ryan and their ilk), and a Supreme Court (dominated by the extreme right) that seem either unwilling or unable to put brakes on presidential behavior.
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