Dispelling the Myth of Fake News in Spielberg’s “The Post”

For a professional journalists, their stories are their bond, their name, and their integrity. And some times, as in the case of the “Pentagon Papers” – the story Spielberg presents so brilliantly in this movie – a journalist risks going to jail for standing up for what s/he believes in. It is a public trust and sacred honor to tell truth to power. And someone has to do it, or everyone in our democracy will lose.