Because the Democratic & Republican National Conventions are coming up later this month: Medium Cool Directed by Haskell Wexler (1969) John Cassellis is a tough TV-news reporter who covers violence and racial tension in the ghetto. When he discovers that his network has been giving his tapes to the FBI to look for suspects, he protests and is fired. He goes to cover the 1968 Democratic National Convention as an independent journalist, but instead of being an objective observer, he finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts… … Continue reading Film Night: Medium Cool