The Post has an IQ Score of 161/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

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The TVI Take
Spielberg's 2017 Pentagon Papers film anchored by Meryl Streep as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee. The structural commitment to letting Graham's executive-decision agony be the actual subject — rather than the male editor-as-protagonist framing the genre defaults to — is the film's distinctive achievement.
Sustained inquiry into the relationship between institutional ownership and journalistic responsibility.
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