Corrected entry: Hot metal typesetting is used to print the Pentagon Papers story in 1971. That process had been obsolete for at least 5 years, probably longer at the Post.
The Post (2017)
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Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson
Factual error: There is a phone on the night stand in the daughter's room. The phone is a Princess phone and has modular cords. This movie takes place 3 years before modular plugs were invented.
Meg Greenfield: From the majority opinion: 'In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.'
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Correction: Hot Metal printing was used at the Washington Post until 1973. It was part of a labor negotiation.