Comments on: Covering political rallies: Who decides what TV cameras show?

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:48:28 +0000

I, like Sam, was reminded immediately of Postman, Denny. In fact, of his appearance in the Moyers’ film in which he described the need for analytic tools for deciphering “visual rhetoric” – (Postman referenced the famous McDonald’s ad in which the busy dad takes time out to take his young daughter to Micky D’s where they get hamburgers, go to a park, and eat them with expressions akin to ecstasy). As far as I can tell, the pictures from political debates and especially from rallies and victory/concession speeches are all largely versions of that McD’s commercial even down to the use of tag lines….

While YouTube offers rebuttal for some visual rhetoric, it doesn’t offer analysis. We’re still working at developing that. And we need to work harder….

By: Mike Sheehan

Mike Sheehan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:26:00 +0000

“The scene they composed was an effective, calculated rebuttal of the Clintonsâ€™ effort to portray Obama as a black candidate whose victory depended on race”

What’s wrong with that? I’m sick of hearing on CNN and Fox and blog after blog and comment after comment how Obama can only draw black voters, almost as sick as I am of hearing on CNN and Fox that as a Latino, I must be for Hillary. I’m certain Obama’s human, and was sick of it too.

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:25:46 +0000

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By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:41:16 +0000

Iâ€™ve never worked in broadcast journalism. I think you left some quotation marks out - that should be "broadcast journalism." Isnâ€™t â€œtruthâ€ supposed to be the work product of journalists? (Or am I just impossibly naive?) We've been through this. Fact is the job of journalists. Truth is the domain of poets and bloggers. In any case, I'm reminded of Bill Moyers' outstanding feature on "Consuming Images." It's remarkable how far we've come even since Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, isn't it?

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www.buzzflash.net — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:27:56 +0000

Covering political rallies: Who decides what TV cameras show?…

We know that candidates dicker with presidential debate sponsors on everything, such as what television cameras may or may not show. Candidates demand control. We expect this at debates. But who decides what cameras show at political rallies?…