Umm, it is “based on a true story”, not a documentary. And Hollywood loves to take creative license, otherwise we would be bored to sleep at the theater. As for the concern of the “Hollywood Trope” of female reporters sleeping with sources to get stories, would that be like when NYT reporter Ali Watkins slept with Senate Intelligence Committee leaker James A. Wolfe to get stories? Let’s get real, women use sex to get what they want all the time.
47 years of marriage and now you tell me. Dang. :)