POL S 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sound Bite
25 Oct 2016
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The public was given an insight into the political processes as they were broadcast. By 1956 the parties began to sanitize their convention proceedings. probed and exposed the mechanics of the kennedy-nixon campaign. Brought into the spotlight"s bright glare practices which tend to thwart and distort the. Cbs evening news (read the materials posted with the video links, and view the links) Teddy white- making of the president electoral process . It"s reasonable to assume that this (the cynic portrayal of politics) , in turn, had contributed to the shameful decrease in the percentage of our qualified electorate that goes to the polls at all . To please the television cameras, chaos, to a large degree, was removed from the convention halls, and so, to a large degree, was democracy . It"s a stand-of between an attempt to use the medium and the medium"s determination not to be used, and they meet, naturally, on the common ground of compromise .
