Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote was based on Johnson's personality rather than on the war. Greater emphasis on non-personality-oriented reportage might have cleared up issues like this. David Broder in the Washington Post was one of the few reporters to do this kind of work and during the fall, the TV networks began to pay attention to the attitudes and issues behind the rhetoric...
While the newspapers and the TV networks in 1968 devoted a great deal of space and time to the daily travels of the major presidential candidates, they virtually ignored the news which was implicit in the other major aspects of the campaigns. Rarely on TV and never in the newspapers were the television campaign commercials, which set the tone for any modern primary or regular national battle, considered. Yet this is the channel through which most voters were reached (outside of the normal news...
...Kennedy, while fascinating for trivia buffs and future students of the style of American political life in the late 1960's, just aren't of over-riding import when one is trying to understand the nature of that brief and turbulent campaign of last spring. Witcover mentions the commercial TV campaign twice--and then only in passing...
...plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough to fill the 1,426-seat playhouse at Stratford for 30 years...
Paul recorded Rosie, and after it be came a top-ten hit, Partridge quit busking for a professional career of singing on records, concerts and TV...