CBS Compares Trump to Nixon in ‘Ripped From Headlines’ Journalism Movie

[See NewsBusters for more.] Journalism is under siege from a tyrannical president and it’s just like Richard Nixon. That’s the hyperbolic trope from the hosts of CBS This Morning on Monday, as well as Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Promoting The Post, a new film about the Pentagon Papers in 1971, co-host Gayle King marveled, “Some of the lines that you hear Nixon say are exactly, Tom, what we hear today from the President of the United States when it comes to the press!” She gushed, “I love this movie and what strikes me is that it’s so relevant for what’s happening in the country today. Go Tom Hanks! Go Meryl Streep!” Tom Hanks described The Post as “sort of ripped right from today’s headlines, so to speak.”