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Bread & Circuses
Politics, Spectacle & Public Memory

A look through the lens of Frost/Nixon that considers how politics and entertainment, power, and truth, media, and public memory have been transformed in the intervening years since Watergate featuring nationally syndicated radio host Thom Hartmann, the Oregonian’s David Sarasohn and Jack Ohman, and moderator Al Stavitsky, director of the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center at the School of Journalism and Communication.

This free event is sponsored by Portland Center Stage, Oregon Council for Humanities, and University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center

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