The myth of viewer‐listener disagreement in the first Kennedy‐Nixon debate¶
Vancil, & Pendell. (1987). The myth of viewer‐listener disagreement in the first Kennedy‐Nixon debate.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
- Delivery (in Rhetoric)
- The 1960 Kennedy–Nixon television debates are the stock case study taught here: radio listeners and television viewers reportedly diverged in who they judged the winner
This sourceTraces the radio-listeners-versus-television-viewers divergence to a single small commercial survey (Sindlinger) and shows the evidence for it is far weaker than its textbook status implies - i.e. it establishes the existence and provenance of the reported claim, and its contested standing.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
“This essay examines the historical evidence on audience response to the debate in 1960 and concludes that the alleged viewer‐listener disagreement is unsupported.”
- The 1960 Kennedy–Nixon television debates are the stock case study taught here: radio listeners and television viewers reportedly diverged in who they judged the winner
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This work's DOI is recorded above but has not been resolved against an external catalogue, so nothing here confirms the work exists.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 1 of 1 citation: 1 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:481c2efe558f · see in the full table