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...media, he realized that the proliferation of outlets has created a new game: a way to reach the American people directly, without the mediation of Dan Rather and the New York Times. The Perot campaign owed much of its amazing start to its call-in, soft-news-show launch, which allowed it to get its message out unfiltered...
...Congress, Perot promises to bypass it and go directly to the American people in the "electronic town hall" -- Nightline with President Perot playing Ted Koppel. It is here, says Perot, that the American people will, in direct communion with the leader, solve those knotty problems that have eluded a clumsy, corrupt Congress...
Coming two-way TV technology will one day make it possible for Perot's town hall to be more than a glorified national talk show. It could be a place where, as in the original New England town hall, people don't just talk but vote. For bombing Baghdad, press 1. For continued sanctions, press 2. For punting until next week's show, press...
...deliberately cumbersome political system (elected representatives, separated powers, bicameral legislature, indirect election of the President) to make sure that popular passions were filtered before they could explode into national action. Over the next two centuries, party and press evolved as additional filters between rulers and ruled. Now, announces the Perot phenomenon, these filters face technological obsolescence...
...political entrepreneurs beholden to no one. The party convention has become positively quaint. Traditionally it was here that the elders gathered to pick their presidential candidates. That role having long since been forfeited to the primaries, the parties have turned the convention into a made-for-TV show. Perot understands that this new contraption -- parties manipulating media to send out the parties' message under cover of "news" -- is Rube Goldberg inefficiency. Why not let one man go on Larry King and send the message out himself, directly...