Instead of the Nashua Telegraph hosting the contestants in a high school gym, and a candidate footing the bill the way Reagan did, the debates turned into nationally broadcast spectacles — and much-hyped branding opportunities — featuring celebrity journalists roaming razzle-dazzle soundstages.
Ms. Andrews, for one, is well aware of the broadcast's spectacle status.
Of the United Nations, another one of their nemeses, they write, "The U.N. regularly broadcasts a spectacle as dishonest and morally deadening as a Stalinist show trial, a televised ritual of condemnation that inflames hatreds and sustains quarrels that might otherwise fade away".
This hourlong spectacle, broadcast live on Samaa TV on Jan . 17 set off a furious reaction in parts of Pakistan.
The confetti-filled 90-minute spectacle, broadcast live on the Internet in three languages, was the largest Mr. Moon had organized since 1999, when 21,000 couples filled Seoul's Olympic Stadium.
The U.F.C. story begins with U.F.C. 1, a wild and grubby spectacle broadcast in 1993 to about ninety thousand pay-per-view customers, who were drawn by the promise that a wide range of fighters — boxers, kickboxers, jiu-jitsu specialists, even a hapless sumo wrestler — would compete in a cage to see which style worked best.
Some of the American bodies were dragged through the streets – a spectacle broadcast on television news programs.
As TV news choppers broadcast the astonishing spectacle--the white Bronco slowly wending its way across Southern California, a cadre of 20 black-and-white squad cars in its wake--traffic came to a halt along the freeways from Disneyland to Los Angeles and commuters jammed the overpasses to cheer and wave at Simpson as he passed.
The spectacle was broadcast live around the world.
