Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone who has all the answers." Only half kiddingly, Barber would even "forbid a candidate to discuss what he would do if elected," remembering F.D.R.'s promise in 1932 to balance the budget and Nixon as the exemplar of law-and-order. So what is left? Creating a favorable impression of what you would be like in office. That was campaigning, 1980-style: not issues, but attitudes; not character, but appearance. The result has been the development of parody news, which has earned the same status as real news...