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Control Room (2004)
Director: Jehane Noujaim By Marilyn Ferdinand An experiment in the public’s right to know began when Al Jazeera began broadcasting in the 1990s. This news organization, headquartered in Qatar, was...
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Our Backstreets #2: Finley Peter Dunne: The Bard of Bridgeport
By Marilyn Ferdinand As I look across my bookshelves, works by Russell Baker, Anna Quindlen, Mike Royko, and Myles na Gopaleen (aka, Flann O’Brien) and a first-edition of Nelson Algren’s nonfiction...
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Our Backstreets #10: Mommie Dearest Strikes Again
By Marilyn Ferdinand Perhaps some of you saw an Associated Press story in your local paper or online news service (Comcast, for example) this past week reporting on the findings of a study comparing...
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Ebertfest 2009: Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Director/Screenwriter: Rod Lurie Roger Ebert’s Film Festival 2009 By Marilyn Ferdinand As I watched Nothing But the Truth with growing excitement, I thought, this is All the President’s Men for the new...
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CIFF 2012: The Last Sentence (Dom Över Dod Man, 2012)
Director/Coscreenwriter: Jan Troell 2012 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand At 81, Jan Troell, a contemporary of Ingmar Bergman, continues to make finely crafted films that plumb...
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All the President’s Men (1976)
Director: Alan J. Pakula By Marilyn Ferdinand As I pick through the daily helpings of mainstream-media-bashing, liberal- and conservative-bias-shaming and all the other pleasantries that instantly...
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