Dealing With the Hard Stuff

By Judith Plaskow | September 1, 1994

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Nixon and the Sixties: Mass Media and the Sanitized Past

The spectacle of revisionism exposes our mass-mediated postmodern culture for what it is: a montage of images, symbols, and sound-bites that not only obscures reality but in some critical ways reverses it. The results of this sanitizing process are readily apparent in the Orwellian comments of people too young to remember the real events. What can progressives do in the face of such a total rewriting of history?

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