Article: A mirror for magistrates. (television coverage of the Senate)

A Mirror for Magistrates

"Television is the Che Guevara of modern society,' Senator William Proxmire warned, but since only twenty of his colleagues concurred in his assessment of this "revolutionary tool,' live television coverage is now a permanent feature of the world's greatest deliberative body.

The Senate's debate of July 29, which ended with the installation of TV cameras, was unremarkable for its outcome, which was all but inevitable. Its interest lies in the notions about television's power set forth by the participants. Here in the last proceedings of the Senate to be recorded only in print, one can find the views of one hundred ambitious, ...

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