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November 17, 2012

the selling of a president 2.0

A New York Times op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci of Princeton on the emergence of information intensive campaigning.  

Of course there are clear dangers, but I suspect the genie is out of the bottle.  It reminds me of Joe McGinniss' book The Selling of a President, 1968 on the election of the previously disgraced Richard Nixon when ad people were brought into Presidential politics to tune an image ...

 

 

 

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If you became a president you are the most powerful in your country but it is just for a temporary period of time.

Posted by: Jeremy Norton | November 17, 2012 at 12:11

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