Publication: Reflections on Television's Role in American Presidential Elections
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1990-01
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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Grossman, Lawrence K. "Reflections on Television's Role in American Presidential Elections." Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series 1990.D-3, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 1990.
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More than a century before television came on the scene, Alexis de Toqueville wrote in Democracy in America, "The press...constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that liberty could not live without it, and public order can hardly be maintained against it." That is a remarkably perceptive description of the role that television plays in presidential politics today.