The documentary “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” makes a persuasive case for why I should have paid more attention. Hogan’s case seems preposterously thin, until a shrewd bit of legal wrangling puts Gawker’s fortunes in genuine danger. As the film makes clear, the threat is particularly dire for news outlets in small and midsize cities where they’re the only source of accountability to local political and corporate power. (It was finished before the Trump White House made its press briefings more rare, less transparent and must-see exercises in stonewalling.) “Nobody Speak” is a chilling, essential primer in how we got here and where we’re going if bread and circuses continue to win the news cycle.

Source: Washington Post June 22, 2017 20:26 UTC