MTV.com - Choose or Lose - Headlines
"You're a producer for the local news. Which footage would you use to open your daily report on the Republican convention: a) a rousing speech inside the convention hall; b) thousands of peaceful protestors milling about outside; or c) a handful of violent (but entertaining) protestors scuffling with police?

If you want to keep viewers from flipping the channel, you'll probably choose the last option-- which explains why many Democrats are more concerned about what happens outside the convention hall this week than in it. If media coverage of the convention focuses disproportionately on the most violent, radical or unconventional protestors, those figures could become the public face of John Kerry and the Democratic Party."

MTV.com - Choose or Lose - Headlines
- posted by liz @ 8/31/2004 03:22:00 PM