Subj : Re: morgan spurlock dead
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed May 29 2024 07:55 am

>  DW> I could understand someone a lot younger not having a clue, but it
>  DW> surprised me a little that someone so close in age never learned about
>  DW> either of those events.

> I couldn't imagine any journalism major not watching "All the
> President's Men". Although "journalism" probably doesn't mean
> investigative journalism any more. I could imagine a marketing
> "influencer" thinking of themselves as a journalist.

They graduated college in 2000, long before "influencer" was a thing. :)
IIRC, their precise major was photo journalism, so maybe they only had to
learn how to take the pictures that tell the story and not about anything
historical.

We watched that movie in high school.  They went to a different high
school, but in a district where the schools are usually better.  History
was something I was always interested in and I would seek out opportunities
to learn about it.  Maybe they were not as interested or inclined.

Still I was shocked they didn't know about either event.


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