Meryl Streep was honored at the Golden Globes 2017 for a lifetime of notable work when she took the opportunity to deliver a moving and generous speech. She spoke about the role actors, and the press, have to play in cases of disrespect and humiliation. She also used her speech to urge the importance of press freedom and remind those in Hollywood of the responsibility of empathy as well as highlight the importance to American culture of outsiders and foreigners.
