'The Post' highlights how far media has fallen

'The Post', Spielberg's take on the NY Times and Washington Post publishing the Daniel Ellsberg pilfered Pentagon Papers, shows long standing media coziness with government officials. Publisher Kay Graham, tight with Defense Secretary Bob McNamara, was loathe to out his deception which sent thousands of US boys and millions of Vietnamese to a senseless death. She reminded editor Ben Bradley, trying to persuade her to publish the purloined papers, of his friendship with JFK which prevented him from reporting candidly on Jackie after the assassination.

But she pushed back against the Post's lawyers who argued she'd lose the Post and her freedom if she published, which she did. To her and Bradley, freedom of the press and unveiling deadly government secrecy trumped access or even survival.

Forty-seven years on the Pentagon Papers would never see the light of day. The NY Times, Post, Wall Street Journal and even Chicago's own Tribune are in the tank for the war party. They willingly pass on every mendacious government lie regarding our perpetual wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Niger and others in 149 countries defiled by our 70,000 special ops and killer drones. They join the witch hunt against Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and Ed Snowden, imprisoned, holed up in an friendly embassy or on the run from a government bent on revenge for revealing the truth.

The editorial board members of the aforementioned medial giants should be locked in a theater, forced to watch 'The Post' endlessly till they figure out how to protect the public from perpetual war.