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The Looking Glass of Conventional Mediaby Norman SolomonA convention is in the eye of the beholder. Twenty years ago, at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the media buzz was all about Michael Dukakis and his closest rival, Jesse Jackson. Dukakis had accumulated a dominant quantity of delegates. And the talking heads on the TV networks were dispensing conventional wisdom with the media story line — urging him to be a "moderate," unbeholden to "special interests." Who were those " ... ( Back to Article )
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