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vigilance testify to the safeguards we have posted against the
dastardly uses of power.
When Theodore White’s The Making of the President :
1960 is opened at the section on “The Television Debates,” the
TV student will experience dismay. White offers statistics on
the number of sets in American homes and the number of
hours of daily use of these sets, but not one clue as to the
nature of the TV image or its effects on candidates or viewers.
White considers the “content” of the debates and the
deportment of the debaters, but it never occurs to him to ask
why TV would inevitably be a disaster for a sharp intense image
like Nixon’s, and a boon for the blurry, shaggy texture of
Kennedy.
At the end of the debates, Philip Deane of the London