'The Girls on the Bus' Are Messy, Flawed, and Driven—Just Like the Best Journalists I Know

When I set out to create The Girls on the Bus, I knew what I didn’t want it to be. I didn’t want it to be sanctimonious or high-minded. I didn’t want to portray Great Journalists Speaking Truth to Power. Too many journalism movies and TV shows adopt this holier-than-thou tone. Please watch the trailer for The Post (“What will happen if we don’t publish? We will lose! The country will lose!”). Or the scene in The Newsroom when they …