Jackson's Argumerical Techniques

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Jackson begins his article by saying that “most of us are aware that the students we teach are part of a media-moved generation and we cater to them in a variety of ways-including the use of film. But in most cases, we show documentaries (para 1).” He then states that movies “based on historical subjects” have been discovered to be “inaccurate, biased or misleading” (para. 1). He then goes on to say that it worried Bernstein that “‘movie makers….have become our most powerful...historians’”(para. 2). Jackson then gives an example of a movie that Bernstein criticized for the fact that Roland Jaffe, the one in charge of Fat Man and Little Boy “‘guided filmmakers in deciding what historical facys to show and how to show them’” (para. 3). He