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...being 'nice' and not enough about winning." Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, complained that "if you came down from Mars and saw this debate, you might think that Al Gore was a moderate Republican...and Jack Kemp was the Democrat." Even Dole, in an interview with ABC's Ted Koppel, cracked that Kemp and Gore got along so famously that "it looked like a fraternity picnic there for a while...
...their part, top Kemp advisers insisted to TIME that neither Reed nor any other campaign official had asked Kemp to attack Clinton's character. Dole himself had sent the signal that the tactic might backfire, they said. "Our surveys show," Dole told ABC, "that a sure way to lose the women is to do the tough stuff...
Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart and Dole counterpart Nelson Warfield debated the debate on ABC's Good Morning America. NBC analyst Tim Russert and ABC's Jeff Greenfield weighed in on Don Imus' radio show. In a CBS poll, 50% of the respondents said they thought Clinton was the winner, vs. 28% for Dole. Rush Limbaugh replayed Clinton's response on the issue of presidential pardons and exclaimed, "Now what does that mean?" USA Today tracked the minute-by-minute responses of 148 voters in St. Louis, Missouri, and reported that they felt most favorable about Clinton when he praised health...
...Newspaper readership is in steady decline. That's partly because most people now get their news primarily from TV: 59% according to a TIME/CNN poll, vs. 23% from newspapers. But the audience for network news is also dropping. Fifteen years ago, the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and ABC's World News Tonight together were watched in 41.2% of all American TV homes. Last season that combined audience sank to an all-time...
...Olympics; and a tumultuous presidential campaign. Today we have wars between Kurdish factions that no one can quite tell apart, and a presidential campaign that has generated less interest than any in recent memory. "A lot of tension went out of the news when the cold war ended," contends ABC News president Roone Arledge. "It's not a life-or-death matter whether you watch the news each night." The public's attention is turning from substantive news to celebrity gossip; we've gone from the age of news to the age of entertainment...