For those of you with Netflix accounts, now is the time to rent “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and remember the way small-town Scout Master Jefferson Smith conquered Washington, D.C., and excited Depression-era hearts. Little has changed in Washington — or newspaper editorial suites for that matter — since that film was released 50 years ago, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and offered a celluloid indictment of both congressional corruption and its coconspirator, America’s media kingmakers. Watching Sarah Palin’s speech last Wednesday night, those black-and-white frames flickered, unbidden, on the screen of my memory: The fictional Jefferson Smith fought...
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