So you think you know everything about the 2003 Iraq War. The bogus weapons of mass destruction. The lives lost for a lie. W's daddy issues.
Well, think again. In this film, taken from the "All The President's Men" playbook, we go back to those dark prewar days when The New York Times and other giants of the mainstream media bought the Bush/Cheney propaganda. And later, had to apologize for falling down on the job.
What you probably don't know (and the Movie Slut surely didn't) is that Knight Ridder, which owned and supplied stories to more than thirty newspapers, had a team of reporters who uncovered the deception.
There's a clunkiness about this movie, directed by Rob Reiner, who also stars as the editor on the story, but as it picked up steam the MS got caught up in the drama and appreciates learning something new about recent history.
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