What’s Aged the Best?
Newspaper craft, accountability reporting, political paranoia, Washington, and Gordon Willis
In the discussion (5)
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- The fully reconstructed Washington Post newsroom, period desks, ambient typewriters, phones, and chatter are praised
- Political suspicion and the role of journalists in challenging power are praised as enduring
- The story’s patient, stepwise reporting and high cost of error are praised
- Washington is praised as a character created through locations and Gordon Willis’s shadowed cinematography
- Gordon Willis’s 1970s work is credited with shaping collective visual memory of the decade