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Anonymous ID: a7840d Jan. 7, 2018, 7:07 a.m. No.15375   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Reagan and the press:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/ 1984/10/14/magazine/the-president-and-the-press.html?pagewanted=all

 

Mr. Reagan, of course, is a past master at using the news media to his advantage. His skills at projecting his strong personality and set of convictions have brought him dazzling political success. He and his aides have also achieved a new level of control over the mechanics of modern communication - the staging of news events for maximum press coverage, the timing of announcements to hit the largest television audiences. Moreover, the President has displayed his news media artistry at a time when television has become the dominant means by which the public gets its news. From the beginning of his Presidency, Mr. Reagan and his aides have understood and exploited what they acknowledge to be the built-in tendency of television to emphasize appearances and impressions more than information.

 

Central to the President's overall strategy has been his unusual ability to deal with television and print reporters on his own terms - to decide when, where and how he will engage them. In short, the art of controlled access.

 

Mr. Reagan's aides say they came into office mindful that the last four Presidents had been politically defeated or driven from office and convinced that the press's reporting had contributed to their downfall. The emotional press treatment of the Iran hostage crisis during the Carter Administration has never ceased to haunt them.