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Hollywood and Presidential Power in Wag the Dog

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Hollywood and Presidential Power in "Wag the Dog"

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"Wag the Dog" is one of the great American political satires which is a Barry Levinson film released in 1997. It is about a president suddenly buried deep in sex scandal just days before he was almost certain to be re-elected, and the efforts of his staff to divert America's attention away from the scandal with the help of a professional spin doctor and a Hollywood producer. In the film both Hollywood and the President play a significant role, despite the fact that the president is represented by his " staff ".

?h? completely fake war, written and produced by a top Hollywood producer and a presidential Mr. Fix-It does have a serious message to impart - Don't believe everything you see on TV. Parents tell their kids that the man on TV isn't really dead, it's all fake, and we all know that movies and dramas aren't real, they're written and acted. We watch documentaries and biographies and absorb the information as the truth. When we watch the news at 7:00 pm every evening, and read the paper over coffee and breakfast, we believe everything reported. And

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