The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette : For Everyone with a Stake in Politicians and Journalists.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Etiquette -- Advertising -- Anonymous Sources -- Bias -- Conflict of Interest -- Consultants (for Candidates) -- Consultants (for Journalists) -- Conventions -- Corrections -- Cyberpolitics -- Debates (Format) -- Debates (News Coverage) -- Disclosure -- Election Night -- Endorsements -- Families -- Focus Groups -- Free TV -- Front Loading -- Gender -- Health -- Horse Race -- Labels -- Local TV News -- Lying (for Journalists) -- Lying (for Politicians) -- Metaphors -- Money -- News Councils -- Platform -- Polls (for Journalists) -- Polls (for Politicians) -- Predictions -- Push Polls -- Revolving Door -- Sex Scandals -- Sound Bites -- Straw Polls -- Talk Radio -- Vocabulary -- Voters -- Winning and Losing -- For Additional Information -- Back Cover.

Revised and updated just in time for the 2000 campaign, this shrewd and amusing series of observations provides a political etiquette for campaign behavior on the part of both politicians and journalists. Features illustrations by America's foremost political cartoonists, including Herblock, Paul Conrad, Jeff McNally, Don Wright, Garry Trudeau, Jim Borgman, Mike Peters, Tom Toles, Mike Luckovich, Steve Benson, and Walt Handelsman. "Stephen Hess has stepped into the breach with answers to questions that ought to be more frequently asked...This breezy book is likely to be of interest to anyone who follows - or worries about - the state of the nation's political discourse." - USA Today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.