Nothing But The Truth...
....and all that razmataz!!
Always be a journalist who runs a factual story and refuses to out her source. Especially if you're the journalist who outs a CIA agent who has leaked the truth about a war that shouldn't be--and the obsessed falsehoods behind that war. Go to jail on contempt first.
That's the premise of this 2008 film.
Should be a good movie.
Should be a really moving flick when the outted-CIA agent is killed to silence more information leaking out.
It was based on fact...up to a point.
The fact is the press shield law...a journalist is protected against giving up a source or confidential information leading to a story. Fact of the law is: a reporter can not be forced to give up a source.
The reporter in this film went to jail for three years. Divorce, loss of job, threats, abused in prison. She stayed true to the ethics of the shield law. Fiction entered the flick after about a year in the slammer. No judge is going to hold a journalist that long on contempt.
Well, not until we got the Patriot Act! The Big Brother Sneaks Into Your Life....With License and Without the Original Constitution!
The movie fell short...I was bored. You can only show prison life, divorce, loss of job...and loss of a Pulitzer so long. Move on, there was a murder of the CIA agent here.
We ignore that? To protect a lie?
The movie was about truth and lies and paranoid government.
Great premise....gets a C+
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