Kiku Adatto, who compared television's Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. coverage of the presidential elections of 1968 and 1988. intelligence experts sur- prise, as Tismaneanu does. By 1988 television's tolerance for the languid pace of politi- But he warns that they still cal discourse, never great, had all but vanished. An analysis do not understand that it is of all weekday evening network newscasts (over 280) from the strength of the groups Labor Day to Election Day in 1968 and 1988 reveals that the...