Truth: Fascinating recreation
In the same week that the Academy Awards bestowed Best Picture upon Spotlight, a real-life drama about the power of investigative journalism to expose corruption, Truth opens a different chapter on the media and its practices.
Writer-director James Vanderbilt’s handsome picture recreates the political firestorm that erupted when CBS News’ esteemed programme 60 Minutes publicly called into question the military record of US President George W Bush.
Key pieces of paperwork, used by 60 Minutes as links in a chain of evidence, were subsequently discredited and a key witness confessed he had lied about their providence.
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Hide AdHeads rolled at CBS including producer Mary Mapes, who recalled her version of events in the memoir Truth And Duty, and President George W Bush was inaugurated for a second term at the White House.