The insistence on freedom of the press is sometimes no less than a war. Nixon obtained a court injunction against the New York Times for censoring the New York Times for publishing classified documents related to the Vietnam War. The Washington Post did not stand by and the family business was facing an IPO At the critical moment, the female head Kay hesitated, and the editor said, "This is a historic fight. If the New York Times loses, we lose too. If we don't publish, we will lose all. Everyone knows that we have those Evidence, if you don't publish it will be considered fearful, the entire nation will lose, and Nixon will win, and Nixon will win this time, and will win next time, and it's all because of our fear, because of the rights to publish. The only way is to publish!" True, editor Ben is brave, but as publisher Kay has more to have and more to lose, so her persistence in the newspaper's mission is all the more remarkable. There is this speech on TV in the film "The revelation from the Pentagon Papers is that people can't let the president run the country alone, I can't figure it out, President Nixon equates the truth with treason, which makes me feel that it hurts the government. The government or damage to a person's reputation is equivalent to treason, which is equivalent to saying, I am the country." I think the climax of the film is that before the court dismissed the New York Times for violating national security laws, all the newspapers followed the Washington Post. If fear is an effective means of containing the majority, then this tacit understanding of the spirit of publishing, combined into a torrent, means unstoppable, and they have won at this point.
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