That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. … - Mark Shields

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Oh, the foghorns. . . even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear. . . it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

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That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

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