2024 is not 1968 − and the Democratic convention in Chicago will play out very differently than in the days of Walter Cronkite
- Written by Heather Hendershot, Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism, Northwestern University
A sign welcomes delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1968, with helmeted police officers standing by. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe presidential nominating conventions every four years are political events, but they are also media events. Since the advent of television, Democratic and Republican national convention organizers have sought...