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...Orleans with six networks and twelve newspapers. "It shows one thing," said Toshio Mizushima, a correspondent for the Tokyo-based daily Yomiuri Shimbun, "that the Japanese viewers and readers are very eager to know what is really going on in this election." So are the Europeans. The C-SPAN network's video verite coverage of the podium in Atlanta was beamed by satellite to 22 European countries, prompting hundreds of viewers in those countries to write to the C-SPAN offices in Washington. Interest in President Reagan's farewell speech was so high in Britain that the BBC broadcast...
...networks this year had to face another fact of TV life that is becoming increasingly apparent: they are no longer the only game in town. The gavel-to- gavel duties have largely been taken over by Ted Turner's Cable News Network and C-SPAN, the cable public-affairs channel. Operating on its home turf, CNN had a force of some 300 at the convention, up from 275 in '84, and proved to be a fully muscled competitor to the Big Three. Meanwhile, the convention floor was teeming with local-station crews searching for the hometown angle and conveying...
...television has presided in an eerily total way over the presidential campaign. Although the televised debates have been often numbing, they have allowed voters to get to know the candidates, some of whom were utterly obscure before. Unblinking news channels like CNN and C-SPAN have relentlessly tracked the field...
...last Sunday afternoon the Biden camp still thought it might be able to rescue the campaign. Then a Biden aide got a phone call from a friend at Newsweek, who read him a story from the coming week's issue that contained more damaging details. The story described how C-SPAN, a cable- TV network, had filmed Biden lying about his academic credentials at a campaign stop in Claremont, N.H., earlier this year. What was truly devastating was the tape itself, aired on TV last week. There was Biden, finger jabbing the air, haranguing a man who had asked about...
...C-SPAN tape was the final blow in a barrage of stories that threatened not just to overwhelm Biden's presidential campaign but to endanger his prospects for re-election to the Senate in 1990. Two days of conferences reached the inevitable conclusion. Biden would have to go through what is becoming a new ritual of presidential politics: the press conference at which a candidate reluctantly pulls out of the race before a single primary vote has been cast...