In Saga of NBC and Ronna McDaniel, Perks and Perils of Partisan Talk on TV
Trying to juice scores in an election 12 months, a serious TV community employed a pair of provocative commentators from the political institution to inject some spiky opinion into its otherwise-staid marketing campaign protection. The outcome — the Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. debates of 1968 — was successful with viewers and an […] More