Mike Ballard wrote:
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> The very people who should know better, having criticized the hold of the
> media on the national mind, find themselves transfixed by the press, glued to
> the television set, as the candidates preen and smile and bring forth a shower
> of clichés with a solemnity appropriate for epic poetry.
Well, the time I spend reading lbo-posts on the elections represents some serious waste of time, but as to this I am quite innocent. Since 1965 I have heard the voice of only two presidents or presidential candidates, and those occurred while I was spinning a radio dial and accidentally tuned in to 30 seconds of Reagan back in the '80s and another 30 seconds of Bush a couple years ago. I have never heard the voices of Ford, Carter, BushI, or Clinton. Nor have I ever seen any of them on TV. I have browsed in newspaper articles on the campaign but never read a column or news article in full.
Carrol