MSNBC playing "All The President's Men" wonder if there is a reason???

[demtenjeep]

I am watching with renewed purpose

[dewsgirl]

1. I love that movie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Just coincidence, I'm sure. MSNBC runs old movies all the time,

right?

[demtenjeep]

3. I don't remember any movie on MSNBC :)

Usually Sunday nights are profile nights

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Exactly. They don't show movies.

Except for this one.

[triron]

41. Hmmm.

Excellent point.

[MFM008]

43. I have never

Seen them do a movie.

[babylonsister]

6. I am shocked! nt

[skylucy]

5. KC Hunt introduced the movie at the end of her show tonight. She said that

they thought it was very relevant during this time. MSNBC does not normally show movies. Also, CNN has been airing a documentary type of program about Putin, his rise to power and the terrible things he has done. I think it is good that the networks are trying to educate people.

[monmouth4]

8. And to amplify the importance of journalism and the hard work that goes into it...n/t

[FakeNoose]

24. Right - reminding us of the time when the journalists used to be the good guys

... so we can compare it with how lazy and venal they are today.

Actually I don't blame the journalists themselves, it's the management level on every newspaper, political journal and TV news outlet - they are the ones to blame. They all sold out their principles for big, big money and now here we are. I believe a lot of the reporters and columnists (the foot soldiers) are just as disgusted as we are. Several have left the industry over it.

I do love this movie though. It's such a classic!

[monmouth4]

25. Agree with all you said. The "suits" are the problem...nt

[Fred Sanders]

10. Interesting..Fox website has a well drawn graphic with "Fake News" plastered across the face

of several newspapers. Someone is working overtime today!

Is there a Watergate reporting moment coming from one of the newspapers again? Is that the reason for the over the top Fox attack on the media in support of Trump?

(Besides the graphic and headline being vomit-inducing state propaganda?)

[demtenjeep]

12. that ought to be illegal

but we are living in trumpmerika

[Grassy Knoll]

7. There Is A Little I Miss Each Time I See It..

..This Is Great.

[demtenjeep]

9. Maybe this is the networks start of fighting back that they should have been doing all along

Any self-respecting network would not have put up with the shit that has been said about their journalist

[demtenjeep]

11. remind me who was Deep Throat?

I don't remember

[Wounded Bear]

13. I forget the name...

but he was a Deputy Director of the FBI IIRC. He came out a few years ago, just before his death.

Mark Felt

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for The Washington Post, and Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. Felt was suffering from dementia at the time and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein confirmed the attorney's claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)

[demtenjeep]

14. I want to say Mark

but I can't remember

going to google it

[demtenjeep]

17. Mark Felt

.

[Grassy Knoll]

15. Mark Felt

[JI7]

16. Mark Felt

[underthematrix]

18. I absolutely love this movie.

[demtenjeep]

19. Follow The Money

isn't that what they are saying today

[sheshe2]

20. Wow.

I just switched to MSNBC and was shocked that a movie was playing.

This movie

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

21. Love this movie and watch it every time it's on television.

Really pleased that it's being shown on MSNBC. Hopefully they're trolling Trump...lol

[demtenjeep]

22. I actually own this movie and play it when I teach Government

but I am watching it now on TV

[frogmarch]

23. I taped it long ago and

play it whenever I'm too uptight about trumpco to fall asleep. It relaxes me, and I often konk out during the first 15 minutes or so. I think I know all the dialogue by heart now, since I've watched the whole movie lots of times. I love it!

[demtenjeep]

26. I had forgotten how close the story came to being shelved

True reporters DIG

[sheshe2]

27. The Pillsbury dough boy will not be pleased.

[demtenjeep]

28. who was John Mitchell?

Gordon Liddy

[DeminPennswoods]

35. John Mitchell was Atty General of the United States

Liddy was part of the WH Plumbers gang.

[oswaldactedalone]

29. Awesome Film

Woodstein got the job done with an oral assist from Deep Throat.

[moondust]

30. Haven't seen it since 1976.

A couple months after it came out. In London.

Just as good this time, maybe even better.

[tavernier]

31. They have to get more and more creative about how they fight back

Since the criminals that are in the White House and half of the congress right now are so blatantly dishonest.

[H2O Man]

32. Recommended.

I'm glad that they are showing it. Great movie (and book).

[oberliner]

33. Isn't Carl Bernstein a contributor to CNN?

[DeminPennswoods]

36. Yes, head of their investigative unit

now, iirc.

[sarah FAILIN]

34. Everything was hard back then.

No Internet, no word processing computers, having to actually dig for leads.. I can't imagine how they did it.
My kids couldn't even type on a typewriter, lol.

[DeminPennswoods]

39. It was funny to look back at the times

Glass and wood phone booths, thick telephone books with everyone's name, number and address, library cards, pens/pencils/notebooks, having to ask for an "outside line", smoking permitted everywhere, lots of white men and few women/minorities in the newsroom, CRT TVs, no security cameras...

[Totally Tunsie]

37. "I have a wife, a family, a dog and a cat."

Great movie...riveting to see it again.

Watching it damn near kills me, though. I gave up smoking about 12 years ago, and watching Dustin Hoffman light up one after another brought it all back to me - could actually still taste it! It's a good thing there weren't any butts in the house.

Wonder if Melly and Donny were curled up on the couch watching it too.

[BigmanPigman]

38. The Manchurian Candidate was on AGAIN

last week. I see it all the time now on various stations. It must be programmed this way purposely by a lot of people who are patriots and hate what he is doing to the country.

[DeminPennswoods]

40. Felt was right about Nixon using all the levers of power

trying to squash his "enemies". COINTELLPRO was only one program meant to stifle dissent. While the Mueller investigation is wider, Watergate was deeper.

[triron]

42. Mueller is investigating what has international tentacles. Watergate did not.

[displacedtexan]

44. The last scene of The Post, followed by the first scene of All The President's Men...

...will give you chills.

Seriously, try to experience it. You won't regret it.