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aggiesal

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:40 PM 20 hrs ago

So I'm watchingthe movie ''The Post'', about the Washington Post on the Pentagon Papers ... [View all]

There is a scene in a restaurant where Ben Bradlee won't back down about the Post Reporter, that the Nixon White House, won't approve the reporter credentials.

Bradlee says "We can't have an administration dictating to us our coverage just because they don't like what we print about them in our newspaper."

Imagine if we had an Editor that would be that resolute against the current Administration?

I'm old enough to remember all this.
How far have we fallen!

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