Television: A Political Machine

Discusses how the mass media have affected politics by examining how candidates used television in the 1968 Indiana presidential primary. Reviews such aspects as the television personality of a candidate, the role of newscasts, and the character of paid political announcements, which in many ways resemble news reports. Indicates that old-time political campaigning has been changed by the extensive use of television.
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Discusses how the mass media have affected politics by examining how candidates used television in the 1968 Indiana presidential primary. Reviews such aspects as the television personality of a candidate, the role of newscasts, and the character of paid political announcements, which in many ways resemble news reports. Indicates that old-time political campaigning has been changed by the extensive use of television., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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