{"id":44192,"date":"2012-01-21T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44192"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:06:47","slug":"open-thread-the-cnn-opener-for-the-southern-republican-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/21\/open-thread-the-cnn-opener-for-the-southern-republican-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: The CNN Opener for the Southern Republican Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Hey look! Fox News, American Idol, and Monday Night Football had a threesome and it made a baby named the Southern Republican Presidential Debate!”<\/p>\n

That was my first thought, anyway, as I watched my first Republican Primary debate of the season two nights ago. I was really surprised at the opening dramatization of the event on CNN. \u00a0If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you absolutely must watch the first few minutes of the video below (especially :40 to 2:30):<\/p>\n

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So, what do you think? \u00a0Does this smack of sensationalism to you? \u00a0Is this just what TV looks like these days? \u00a0Without being overly nostalgic, how does this compare to the mood of previous debates? \u00a0How might this framing of the debates affect how people think of the presidency, our government, the process?<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hey look! Fox News, American Idol, and Monday Night Football had a threesome and it made a baby named the Southern Republican Presidential Debate!” That was my first thought, anyway, as I watched my first Republican Primary debate of the season two nights ago. I was really surprised at the opening dramatization of the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,23703,85,8121],"class_list":["post-44192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-marketing","tag-politics","tag-election-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58511,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions\/58511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}