tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post6498326119431860821..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Back to the futureJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-71828188874246016772008-05-04T22:17:00.000-04:002008-05-04T22:17:00.000-04:00I remember growing up reading about how people who...I remember growing up reading about how people who watched the Nixon-Kennedy debate on TV thought Kennedy had won it, and those who listened to it on radio thought Nixon had won, and this was always presented as evidence of how TV cheapened American politics and reduced everything to image, image, image. It wasn't until fairly recently that I first heard somebody--I think it was Louis Menand--suggest that maybe, just maybe, what this disconnect revealed is that the kind of people who listened to the debate on radio because, as late as 1960, they still didn't own a TV set, were just naturally the kind of people who'd have voted for Nixon if he were running against Flash Gordon.Phil Dyess-Nugenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979900896034692570noreply@blogger.com