Ben Bradlee is undeterred. He picks up a chunk of the report and says, in that growl we just heard from the Hanks on Colbert’s couch: “Thanks to the president of the United States, who by the way, is taking a shit all over the First Amendment, we have the goods.” He puts his feet up on a desk. “So we dig in.” End clip. Stories like these cast a long cold shadow over our own. They foster the idea that these great icons of the past built an industry, then my generation came along and broke it all.
