Adios, Sound Bites & Fat Cats – Obama is Changing Politics
Posted by Ted Hopton on April 21, 2008
I’ve been wondering whether Obama is succeeding at changing the rules of the political game, so I found this analysis interesting.
The ecosystem of political media has changed, with sound bites losing their authority. Consumers of news are less easily manipulated by the 24/7 barrage of bites and images (Hillary Clinton doing whiskey shots, Obama bowling), which are dissected endlessly on cable. Voters search for their own context.
