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How Bartlet made me an idealist
The juxtaposition between the fictional White House of The West Wing and the real-life geopolitical events played out on the news stoked a burning cynicism of the political process. More than that, it planted the seed of romantic idealism of how the world should work that continues to nag me every day.
A great interviewer, or human
About 45 million Americans tuned in for the first of a series of interviews between British TV personality David Frost and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Watching Ron Howard’s thrilling film Frost/Nixon, an adaption of Peter Morgan’s play, it’s not hard to see why. Frost/Nixon is a great piece of journalistic drama, built as an intellectual battle to the death, yet ironically focused on the fact the prosecutor was not a journalist. I found some interesting parallels and morals.
The importance of ideas
“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.” Those are the words of pioneering American newsman Edward R. Murrow. I love the quote, and his many others like it. It may sound a particularly high-minded agenda for what will inevitably be another inconsequential blog-of-consciousness. But I reckon it’s a good place to start.
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