Since the Pioneer Corporation introduced the first television sets to the United States in the 1940s, television has been developing its practice as a political reporter. The Korean War and World War II interrupted its progress, but it made huge steps in the presidential election of 1948 and in the off-year contests of 1950. In 1940, the first televised political convention was brought to about 40,000 to 100,000 people , but there's really no record that television had an impact on …showed first 75 words of 2633 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2633 total…a coast-to-coast vaudeville show," and he is still right. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bates, Stephen and Edwin Diamond. The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on Television. Third Edition. MIT Press: Cambridge, 1992. Kraus, Sidney. Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1988. Mickelson, Sig. From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite: Four Decades of Politics and Television. Praeger: New York, 1989. Thomson, Charles A.H. Television and Presidential Politics. Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Company, Inc., 1956.