Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The electronic push into the business of the convention did not go unnoticed-or unpunished. Just before the balloting on rule 16c, Temporary Convention Chairman Robert Dole ordered reporters off the floor, while the delegates cheered. CBS Floor Producer Don Hewitt immediately phoned Dole to protest, but television reporters and...
Old Distrust. Despite a few antipress outbursts, the Sunbelt Republicans, who provided most of the convention action, appeared to have outgrown their old distrust of the Eastern-based networks. "They have discovered what protesting students and blacks discovered a decade ago," concluded Columnist Joseph Kraft. "They have come to know...
Whether this new politesse will survive until 1980, and whether convention coverage has by now frozen into a mold, are open questions. "We have reached such a point of sophistication that the changes become less major every four years," says CBS Executive Producer Ross Bensley. "We won't change...
That question most expensively troubles television. A mere 30% of the nation's sets were tuned to the Republicans on the first night of the convention, though this was a slight gain over the Democrats' 26%. Is gavel to gavel (even with all the interspersed commercials) worth it...
Print journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of...