It's not just Hollywood. We here in India do it too. It's just what's "in" now. It's slack-tivism at it's laziest. It feels very unearned and unwarranted with the narrative never supporting the message.
The Washington Post has won 47 Pulitzers (six of which were won in a single year). It has received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers' Association awards. Indeed, "The Post" is one of the most trustworthy and revered names in the world of journalism. And the story that this movie is based on created almost irreparable damage to this institution's reputation and single-handedly destroyed the rights the fourth estate is entitled to.
Shortly after the suicide of the former publisher of The Post Philip Graham, his widow Katherine "Kay" Graham (played by Mer....