Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TV went to Chicago armed with better makeup artists, nattier dress and more fancy electronic gadgets than ever before. The show hardly lived up to its lavish pressagentry, but TV provided the nation with the most comprehensive coverage ever accorded a national political convention. The TV was occasionally halting, windy...
Runners-up in the honors department: NBC's able Chet Huntley and young (36), deadpan David Brinkley, who this year teamed up for the first time to add zest and drollery−a rare convention commodity−to the otherwise dull goings-on. Occasionally this new NBC team even...
ABC's anchorman, John (What's My Line?) Daly, made a virtue out of his chain's relative poverty (less gadgetry, smaller staff) by sticking with the action on the platform while the other webs cast about for sideshow pickups. Daly was the only anchorman who could...
The relentless camera magnified the trivia and underlined the fluffs, caught the convention's heights and hollows−;and its occasional signs of petulance and flippancy−Truman dressing down a reporter who was badgering him for an interview; Tennessee's Governor Clement hamming it up for photographers...
TV's impact on the convention was emphasized from the start, when Paul Butler surprised everybody by banging the gavel on time. And in a sense, TV itself could be blamed for much of the tedium. Almost every speaker, painfully conscious of the camera's eye, addressed himself...