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50-year anniversary: All the President’s Men
Reflecting on the death of the Washington Post through the movie about its most famous story.
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026—the day I re-watched All the President’s Men for this piece—the Washington Post effectively ceased to be a newspaper. Reasonable arguments could be made that the firing of hundreds of staffers was just the final death rattle of a long terminal illness, but the paper that brought down a corrupt president was no more.
It was the paper owned by the guy who paid $75 million to distribute a documentary about the wife of a corrupt president.
This is a 600 character excerpt. Read the full story at City Weekly, where it was published on February 18, 2026.
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