MCC-UE 1028 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harold Stassen, Estes Kefauver, Thomas E. Dewey
27 Feb 2017
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Came to symbolize the fakery of early tv, a suitable metaphor for the descent of knowledge to entertainment. Public interest centered on the pseudo-event itself. Our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals . Note the difference b/w primary & presidential debates. Why are the debates a spectacle of democracy. At this point in our history, presidential debates have become institutionalized. The formats, questions, & settings are all negotiated. Candidate debates have always been with us, in degrees of importance. The lincoln-douglas debates, the most famous american debates (besides the. A way different media environment, one topic, a different oratorical style, different audience expectations* The pre-history of televised presidential debates: radio. The very first broadcast debate occurred on radio, may 17th, 1948, between republicans gov. Audience estimate, 40-80 million listeners. focused on a single issue*, lasted one hour; 1956: abc tv broadcasts the first national intra-party debate,
