How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1
11-03-2025 06:54 via openculture.com

How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1

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How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies that 77 million Americans voted into the White House a criminal reality TV star from NBC, one groomed by a reality TV producer from CBS, who then appointed his Cabinet from Fox and X and World Wrestling Entertainment?
It’s a long story, but the moving image had something to do with it – which is to say, the way we have let television, video, and screen culture run almost entirely u
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