February 27, 2004

Course Examines How TV Affects Perceptions of Reality

By BETHANY BROIDA

Where were you when you first heard about the tragic events of September 11? Unless you witnessed it firsthand, what you saw and remember from that day was determined by what you saw on television.

With the History Channel gaining prominence and made-for-TV biographies being broadcast almost every week, the majority of Americans learn about past events from Hollywood and their television sets. Students in Gary R. Edgerton's "Television Histories as Collective Memory" course at Old

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