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Author Gore Vidal discusses the state of television news and democracy: “There are so many questions that television refuses to take up — much less answer.”
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by Gore Vidal, The Real News Network
April 6, 2007
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels and has written films including the classics Ben-Hur and Suddenly, Last Summer. He is recently the author of The Last Empire and Inventing a Nation.
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