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do not obey in advance | proud antifascist & crank | London via NYC | find me online: www.flickfilosopher.com/2023/09/where-else-to-find-me-online.html
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curated cinema: nailing a crooked politician, and making it good TV

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By MaryAnn Johanson 
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My Curated Cinema series of Movies to Remember When Mainstream Journalists Weren’t Afraid to Hold the Powerful to Account By remains in the 1970s — after 1976’s near-contemporaneous All the President’s Men and 2017’s The Post, set in 1971 — with 2008’s Frost/Nixon. It’s Watergate again here, because that loomed over political journalism at the time, even into the latter part of the decade.
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curated cinema: what Jeff Bezos threw away in The Washington Post

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By MaryAnn Johanson 
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My Curated Cinema series of Movies to Remember When Mainstream Journalists Weren’t Afraid to Hold the Powerful to Account By continues with 2017’s The Post, dramatizing exciting journalistic events from just a year before those of yesterday’s installment, All the President’s Men.
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curated cinema: the criminal conspiracy is coming from inside the White House

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By MaryAnn Johanson 
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Opening a Curated Cinema series of Movies to Remember When Mainstream Journalists Weren’t Afraid to Hold the Powerful to Account By with the granddaddy of them all: 1976’s All the President’s Men, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It’s wild to know that the early-70s Watergate scandal, a nothingburger next to the literal everyday corruption of the Trump White House, rocked the United States so badly that, in its wake, any hint of political wrongdoing got tagged with -gate.
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