A preview of Campbeltown Picture House‘s latest film The Post: NEWS is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Press baron Lord Northcliffe made this statement and it is the meat of Steven Spielberg‘s edgy 1970s set thriller, The Post, opening at Campbeltown Picture House today (Friday).
In June 1971 The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation‘s major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four US presidents.