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“It’s an extension of my job as an educator,” says Robert Thompson, founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. “There’s nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible. Every time I get to say something about my field through a newspaper, the readers of those newspapers are people I would have never reached in my classroom.”
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