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2024 is not 1968 − and the Democratic convention in Chicago will play out very differently than in the days of Walter Cronkite

  • Written by Heather Hendershot, Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism, Northwestern University
2024 is not 1968 − and the Democratic convention in Chicago will play out very differently than in the days of Walter CronkiteA sign welcomes delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1968, with helmeted police officers standing by. Bettmann/Getty Images

The presidential nominating conventions every four years are political events, but they are also media events. Since the advent of television, Democratic and Republican national convention organizers have sought...

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