Conventions could create actual news

CONVENTIONS COULD CREATE ACTUAL NEWS
[SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, AUTHOR: Phil Rosenthal philrosenthal@tribune.com]
In tailoring their conventions for television in recent decades, the Democrats and Republicans stripped away the one thing TV needs most -- drama -- giving the broadcast networks more and more justification every four years to air less and less of their shows. The news divisions complained there simply wasn't enough news, that these were dayslong political ads scripted weeks and months before. But the uncertainty the political parties have worked so long and so hard to avoid, and which the networks crave, is a possibility this summer: Although John McCain enjoys an edge in delegates that makes him the presumptive nominee at the Republican convention this September in Minnesota, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could still be battling it out for the Democratic nomination when their convention opens Aug. 25 in Denver.
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