The Press and Democracy: 1971 and 2018

My lovely wife and I went yesterday to see Steven Spielberg's latest:



This is the story of Daniel Ellsberg's leak of The Pentagon Papers and the Washington Post's decision to publish excerpts after the New York Times was blocked by a federal judge.

The Times, the Post and the other papers of the day that published these excerpts stood up to the Nixon Administration and got the story out to the public. (Excellent movie, by the way.)

As you know, the situation has changed since 1971 ... our democracy has been challenged lately through fake stuff on social media ... and just today the New York Times had a long article on fake twitter accounts ...

Thanks, press for keeping on this issue ... New York Times and ProPublica and your local newspaper all deserve your support!

Here's to a less crazy political future ...