Pros And Cons Of Choosing The Washington Post

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Award season is creeping upon us and the best picture nominees of 2017 have been released. Nine nominees and only one winner. All the films that have been nominated are tough contenders and it will be hard to pick only one.

With nominations like Dunkirk, call me by your name and Three Billboards (which already won the golden globe for best picture.) It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but if I had to choose I would pick The Post.

Kay Graham the publisher for the Washington Post, was given the tough choice of whether or not to publish the pentagon papers in the Newspapers. Publishing them could have been treasonous and the New York Times was already under fire from the white house.

Set in 1971, The Post also showed how women were viewed

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