CNN’s Zurawik on Jan. 6 Hearings: ‘They’re Brilliant, and It’s a Masterpiece’; ‘This Was a Great Civics Lesson We Had This Summer’

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ZURAWIK: "They're brilliant, and it's a masterpiece. And you talk about the people who were naysayers. I was not a naysayer. I was impressed with what I thought they were going to do, but they went beyond my wildest expectations of what they could do. Look, number one, they laid down a template for how to make government interesting on prime time television and get tens of millions of people to watch it. You know what? We don't teach civics anymore in our classrooms. This was a great civics lesson we had this summer, just watching it. You got it by osmosis. You were engaged in the drama, but you also got that. So, that's one thing they did. They have also laid down for historians an account of what happened on January 6 based on sworn testimony, based on eyewitness accounts, based on documentary visual imagery, which will serve history forever and which blows up, to some extent, what the right-wing media — and I mean the hard-core right-wing media — is trying to save what happened on January 6, 2021. That's one thing."