Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For many newsmen, the Democratic Party paled in comparison with the not-very-democratic parties that went on behind closed doors at all hours. The Philadelphia Inquirer front-paged a story on the revelry scene. Its major disclosure: more beer and less Scotch was being offered than in 1972. Dozens...
Television has no duty to make a convention more interesting than it really is, Eric Sevareid philosophized on the air one dull evening last week. His boss, Dick Salant, president of CBS News, had already said precisely that in his instructions to CBS's sizable army of anchor men...
For the only real contest at the convention-the only passionate one involving money, reputation and suspense -was between two closely matched news organizations, NBC and CBS (ABC, listening to its own mercenary heart, looked in at the convention from time to time, but preferred to play hookey with the...
Some critics have argued that television has a duty, instead, to focus relentlessly on the podium, or else be guilty of misrepresenting the event. Television properly replies that speeches are only one facet of a convention, and refuses to cover the ceremonies with the hushed reverence of the BBC covering...
But the old question of whether or not television brings you the "reality" of a convention is now academic and irrelevant. Television is part of the reality. It is not so much a witness as a participant in the process. In one of those eccentric evolutions so characteristic of American...