“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.” ThinkingWorldFirstsRunningSawsHappenedMediaChangedTelevisionDebate Author:Dylan McDermott
“The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.” FirstsTelevisionDebatePresidentialFloridaResidentsPresidential Debate Author:David Letterman
“Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.” RealityPoliticalRaceToo MuchTelevisionBottomDebateInsultAppropriateLaw EnforcementLegislatureSlanderReality TelevisionPolitical Debates Author:Jeanne Shaheen
“Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster.” AcceptingMediaTelevisionInternetAreasAbsolutesRadioDebateMonsters Author:Tony Pulis
“I don`t control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday nights. We have three other debates that are during the week. And unfortunately, broadcast network programming is less flexible than cable network programming.” NightThreeWeekTelevisionDebateProgrammingSchedulesSaturdayFlexibleCablesSaturday Night Author:Hillary Clinton