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the picture that you see from a real situation to a fictional situation with real people in it. Have you seen--what's the “Gump” picture?

Q:

“Forrest Gump.”

Stanton:

Have you seen it?

Q:

Yes.

Stanton:

I haven't seen it, but I've seen parts of it. But there they played with history by moving characters around. You can do that with the news today.

Q:

Oh, my God. That's pretty scary.

Stanton:

Well, sure.

Q:

Yes.

Stanton:

So you're going to say, “Well, gee, if that's on channel 5, they play tricks. I don't think I'm going to get my news there. I'm going to go where the name of the company stands for something akin to the name of Tiffany on a piece of silver.” So this will put more value on brand names in the field of information than we've ever known before. But you get it today, for example a tabloid doesn't have the same credibility that the New York Times has.

But that's nothing compared to what could happen in television. If you could take a candidate





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