Modern Media, Elections and Democracy by Ravi Bheemaiah Krishnan

Author:Ravi, Bheemaiah Krishnan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789386602398
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt, Ltd -- eBooks
Published: 2017-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

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The Role of Television

Since its beginning, television has been interlinked with political processes of every type, ranging from coverage of major political events and institutions to effects on campaigns and elections. From its early position as a new medium for political coverage, television quickly supplanted radio and eventually newspapers to become the major source of public information about politics. Television’s influence grew quickly by providing audiences with the chance to experience major political events live or with little delay.

No political event in the history of television coverage has mesmerized television audiences as the coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Film of the actual tragedy in Dallas was played and replayed, and Jack Ruby’s subsequent assassination of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald occurred on live television. By the 1970s, the live coverage of major political events had become almost commonplace, but television’s ability to lend drama and intimacy to political events continues. Through television, Americans have been eyewitness to State funerals and foreign wars; a presidential resignation; hearings on scandals such as Watergate, Iran–Contra, and Whitewater; triumphs of presidential diplomacy and negotiation; and innumerable other political events.

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