RTV 3405 Lecture 22: 10
8 Mar 2017
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During the debate, nixon looked sickly and sweaty while kennedy looked tanned, calm, and confident. Politics: after the nixon/kennedy debates, politicians realized they could no longer ignore the power of television, but it would be 16 years before two presidential candidates would debate on tv again. In 1964, lyndon b. johnson was too intimidated by barry. In 1968 and 1972, nixon refused to participate having lost the presidency because of televised debates. In 1976, unelected but incumbent president gerald ford debated democratic challenger and future president jimmy. Carter: the nixon/kennedy debate showed that how a candidate presented themselves, what they said, looked like, sounded, and how they connected with the audience all mattered, not that politicians understand that even today, politicians say the darndest things. Cultural critique of american tv: topics, tv as an escapist medium, reflection, or representation, ideology and identification, cultural hegemony, diversity on tv.
