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After the Campaign: Civics Lesson or Boxing Match?
Publication Date: July 2009
Publisher(s): National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)
Author(s): Michael Gottsegen
Series: CLAL Politics and Policy Archive
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Media, telecommunications, and information (Mass media)
Politics (Elections and voting)
Keywords: Values; Political Behavior; Media; Culture
Type: Other
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author considers the tone and nature of media coverage of the long process of tabulating and adjudicating the 2000 election results, and the differences and similarities between American attention to sports and to politics.