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Peter J. Potichnyj ; Mit dt. Kurzfassung ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Z 68.247-1990,34/44

This article discusses live two-way interviews between television presenters in the studio and programme participants at outside broadcast locations. It concerns itself in particular with the relationship between the television event and the event-in-itself, outlining the way in which one programme, Election 97, brings spatially dispersed individuals and places together in a dialectical relationship and suggesting that the television event in such instances is generated not by the reconstruction of events at some discrete remote location but rather via the penetration of a multiplicity of remote sites into one another in the live space of the broadcast. It concludes by arguing for a view of the event as complex, self-referential and multiply-mediated when seen from the perspective of its spatio-temporal dynamics.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, ELECTED CIVILIAN GOVERNMENTS RULE IN EVERY COUNTRY IN LATIN AMERICA, SAVE ONE: CUBA. THE GENERALS ARE GONE, BUT DEMOCRACY HAS NOT TAKEN THEIR PLACE. FRAUD HELPED A FEW OF THESE GOVERNMENTS TO POWER. IN SOME LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, MILITARIES RETAIN DE FACTO RULE. GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO TORTURE AND "DISAPPEAR" THEIR PEOPLE. THE COURTS AND BUREAUCRACIES SERVE ONLY THE WEALTHY AND THE POWERFUL. GROUPS ADVOCATING THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT MAINTAIN POPULAR SUPPORT. EVEN WHILE PROMOTING FREE ELECTIONS, THE REAGAN AND BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE PLACED OBSTACLES IN THE PATH OF DEEPER DEMOCRACY. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC REGULARLY CONFUSES THE TWO. KEY CHANGES IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY THAT WOULD AID THE CAUSE OF DEEPER DEMOCRACY INCLUDE THE REDUCTION OR CESSATION OF TIES WITH THE MILITARY AND WITH THE WEALTHY PRIVATE SECTOR--TWO SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY WHICH ARE STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN THEIR PRIVILEGE AND POWER--IN LATIN AMERICA.