Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Carter's day: "He'd rather not have been in Philadelphia"
  • Press watching in campaign '80: hows and whys
  • Objectivity: most objections overruled
  • Access: equal time for equal actors
  • Fairness: network fear of flacking
  • Seriousness: more is less
  • Comprehensiveness: "losing" the Vice-Presidency and the Congress
  • Covering the "official" Presidency: "Prime-time" Minister
  • Old news, new media: hard-core comparisons
  • Explaining the differences: four theories of press behavior
  • Implications for candidates and the press: coping with each other
  • Implications for us all: are we what we eat?
  • Reprise: reviewing the day's top stories.