A viewer's guide (scholarly) to the national political conventions

Abstract

This short description of the “typical” National Political Convention might well have been placed in the “Research in Broadcasting” department of the Journal as an example of certain all‐too‐common types of research in the field of speech. However, this particular essay was written with tongue in cheek, and is therefore placed “up front” in this issue of the Journal, so that it might associate with more serious researchers into the phenomena of political broadcasting. Although based largely upon the i960 Democratic Convention, the generous generality of this article permits readers of all political persuasions to recognize their own leadership and activities. Dr. John R. Rider is in the Department of Television and Radio at Syracuse University.