Re: Convention coverage

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 17 Aug 2000,  Kevin Vahey wrote:

> 40 years ago people watched the conventions because they HAD to, now they
> have more choices.
 
No, they didn't.  They didn't HAVE to watch television at all.  People 
watched the conventions back then because the conventions actually decided 
who the nominee would be.  And people cared more about politics in those 
days, too.

In my family, we always had the TV on for most of the day and evening 
during the conventions, for both parties.  I couldn't imagine not 
watching, and even after I became active politically as a Democrat, I 
still watched both conventions regularly -- until 1992, when I couldn't 
stand the Republican convention.  I haven't watched it since, but I still 
watch the Democratic convention -- and since the regular networks don't 
really show the convention so much as they show reporters talking to one 
another about the convention, I watch it on C-SPAN.


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