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If you're like me--and I hope for your sake that you're not--you have been spending the past weeks visiting election-news sites and hitting the Refresh button on your Web browser. New Fox News poll out this afternoon! No? Let's go to Gawker and see...
And it no longer matters if you're not obsessed with politics. Because even if you take in only the occasional newspaper, newscast or episode of Saturday Night Live, the coverage you see is driven by the fixations and miniscandals whipped up in the unsleeping election media. With cable and...
This is not to say that the souped-up cycle has rendered the election trivial. In a way, just the opposite. This election and its stakes are so significant that people's appetites are insatiable. They want their voices heard, their issues resolved, their lives bettered. Really, they want the...
The nontraditional media have also controlled the tone of the debate. The blogosphere joined talk radio as a driver of issues and stories. McCain faced some of his toughest interviews of the campaign on David Letterman and The View. And while Katie Couric grilled Palin on CBS, it was Tina...
The traditional press, then, had more competition for scoops, influence and audience as the election became the biggest pop-culture event of the year. So the news media--all chasing the same ad dollars in a bad economy--learned the value of putting on a show. Formerly straitlaced outlets gave...