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The Selling of the Presidency: Politics in the Age of Television

NOW PLAYING: By way of television, politics has become a form of entertainment—dominated by money and profit, imagery and spin, hype and personality. In this new age of political discourse, according to John Whitehead in this week's vodcast, Americans are left to elect a president based on nothing more than who can deliver the best campaign slogans and punch lines.


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