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When the Pentagon Papers inspired a news break collaboration in India

As we watch The Post and re-learn The Pentagon Papers' history, the story of how two argumentative rivals 'conspired' to ensure an important story wasn't killed

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Shekhar Gupta
Besides politics, this is a week marked by talk of The Post, the film about how The Washington Post and its great Editor-Publisher (as Americans call the newspaper proprietor) duo of Benjamin Bradlee and Katharine Graham made history, and set new standards in courageous journalism. The story has been told many times before, in books (both Graham and Bradlee have written stellar autobiographies, and then, indeed, All The President’s Men). You can never have enough of hearing, reading and seeing it. Watergate and the Pentagon Papers remain the gold standard globally for journalistic courage. Generations of journalists have drawn inspiration from
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