Review of The Post (2017) by Ken G — 15 Jan 2018

I saw it, and you should too. It will make you consider aspects of this story you may not have previously thought about - the guts it took for the Post's owner to make the decision to publish, the current state of the paper at the time, the fact that the Post was more of a local paper than the nationally read journalistic powerhouse we think of now, and the gravity of the risks taken to publish.

For more in-depth insight on the overall story of the pentagon papers, see the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon papers. This movie sheds more period context on the Washington Post's role.