Shabby way to portray a heroic fight

The Nixon era was one of the most thrilling periods of modern history. Daniel ellsberg, the Julian Assange of his day, leaked the Pentagon Papers which showed that the US government had lied its head off about the Vietnam War and also knew it couldn’t win it. Compare and contrast: major newspapers published his leaks and a proper judge threw out the case against ellsberg, so that he became a national hero. Whereas, in modern Britain, Assange is in grave danger (unless you protest) of being sent off to rot in some concrete dungeon in the USA, and most journalists (to their shame) don’t care a hoot.

So how disappointed I am in Gaslit, a new, much hyped TV melodrama about this era. Maybe the characters involved really were that mad and that foulmouthed but the sense of a great contest between good and evil, repression and liberty, is completely absent. I cancelled my subscription after one episode.