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Article: The verdict is in: watch and learn.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2007
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Byline: Verne Gay
Jan. 31--"The Supreme Court" is quite possibly the only major series in the history of television on this subject. There are reasons for that. How many times, for example, can a camera slowly pan those ornate columns of the Supreme Court building before viewers nod off (then fall off the couch)? Who among us is conversant or even slightly familiar with Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott v. Sandford, or Engel v. Vitale? And this guy Rehnquist? Heard of him ... did he play second base for the Angels once? These are the key reasons why, anyway: presentation, or the fact that this doesn't exactly lend itself to striking visuals, and ...