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TELEVISION AND POLITICS IN THE 1960'S

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Date Issued:
1972
Summary:
Television has become one of the most important influences in the nation's life, especially its political life. The ways in which television presented the news and in which political figures appeared, especially, the Presidents, became noticeably important in the 1960's. It was feared that domination of television by wealthy candidates would further weaken the democratic process. Although such wholesale capture of the electorate was not evident in the Sixties, it was regarded as a future danger. Television news was remarkable for its saturation in the public, its power to calm the people in time of crisis, its conciseness, and the ambivalence with which people reacted to it.
Title: TELEVISION AND POLITICS IN THE 1960'S.
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Name(s): CONNELL, RENNY MICHAEL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Marina, William, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 102 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Television has become one of the most important influences in the nation's life, especially its political life. The ways in which television presented the news and in which political figures appeared, especially, the Presidents, became noticeably important in the 1960's. It was feared that domination of television by wealthy candidates would further weaken the democratic process. Although such wholesale capture of the electorate was not evident in the Sixties, it was regarded as a future danger. Television news was remarkable for its saturation in the public, its power to calm the people in time of crisis, its conciseness, and the ambivalence with which people reacted to it.
Identifier: 13497 (digitool), FADT13497 (IID), fau:10342 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Television and politics--United States
Television in politics--United States
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