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ERIC Number: EJ321670
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Reading and Misreading Presidents.
Strong, Robert A.
Teaching Political Science, v12 n3 p104-10 Spr 1985
How as a result of the mass media the American public often develops false images of their presidential candidates and presidents is examined. Politics in the age of television has created an illusion of intimacy and a false familiarity that makes it easy to mistake media image for presidential character. (RM)
Descriptors: Books, Majority Attitudes, Mass Media Effects, Political Science, Presidents, Public Opinion, Television, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Presidential Candidates; United States Presidential Campaigns