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Presented by the Zinn Education Project
A Collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
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What Spielberg's
The Post
---- and Our
Textbooks
---- Leave Out
By Bill Bigelow
It's impossible to walk away from The Post without understanding that at the heart of the struggle over the Pentagon Papers was the exposure of government lying about the war in Vietnam. The film offers papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post a warm pat on the back for publishing the Pentagon Papers and exposing these lies. But Spielberg's film ignores the fact that there was abundant evidence of deceit long before these newspapers decided to publish the Pentagon Papers in June of 1971.
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The Post
---- and Our Textbooks
---- Leave Out" is the
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