
Watergate 50 Years Later
Lectures in History
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Cinema and the Medium Myth
Cinema can present very appealing, delicious tales that are focused on individual agency. The washington post one time called all the president's men american journalism's greatest two hours and 16 minuteson on film. And so it's not hard to see how cinema has had that effect of reinforcing and imbedding the medium myth into t popular consciousness. What other arguments could be made for these four factors? Are there others that we can emphasize here? Does anyone else want to argue for another interpretation?
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