What fuels media coverage of political campaigns

Marty Kaplan has described how the media covers political campaigns.  The media: work for a big business, whose oxygen is attention. They live or die on grabbing and holding audiences. To stay in business, they need combat, conflict, heat, meat, flip-flops, gotchas, losers, boozers, hairpin turns, heroes with feet of clay, Rockys,…

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