The Post: Steven Spielberg's hammy ode to journalism is a hack job

Spielberg is expert at peddling sanctimonious pap, which is being eagerly lapped up, making it the third most successful movie at box office

The Post might not be a good movie but it’s definitely not a bad one. What wears me out is the futility of making something that is nothing more than Oscar bait at a time when the US President dismisses non-Fox media as “fake news”.

Director Steven Spielberg puts the audience through the motions about a military analyst leaking classified reports documenting the pitfalls of the Vietnam War during the Truman administration. Under Nixon’s time, these papers almost made it to the New York Times but an injunction from the US government stopped a potential embarrassment.

But when Tom Hanks gets a