Are Robert Redford's Movies About the Media Good for Journalism?

'Truth' is his latest film about the profession

Robert Redford has acted in dozens of films in his career and directed nine others, but there's one subject he doesn't seem to tire of tackling: journalism. Since Redford played Bob Woodward in All the President's Men, he has revisited the profession several times on-screen, both as an actor and a director. And he's at it again this week, portraying Dan Rather in the new film, Truth, which opens Friday.

Redford told the BBC in 2012 that while journalism "had reached an apex of morality and professionalism" when Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the Watergate scandal in the early '70s, "I think it's pretty obvious it's declined since then—but I didn't imagine at the time that it would decline so steeply and drastically, that the rules that governed journalism—like you had to get two sources to go on record before you could quote them—would be gone.

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