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A 1988 Home Box Office TV series -- Tanner '88 -- is used as a point of departure to examine the state of mass-mediated politics. Examples reveal unmistakable signs of contemporary electoral campaigns -- stage management, monitored public opinion, & "myth" information. Pseudo-events replace actual political circumstances to create politically useful images. The consciousness industry, in creating almost universal commodification, has fused propaganda & advertising in the selling of products & politics. Emphasis on spectacle & happening, immediate delivery, & manipulation of demand represents important changes in the way that capitalism & democracy work. A new mode of information in which social relations are mediated by electronic communication systems is being created. But saturation coverage in the media has not created a better-informed, more active electorate. Rather, it has reduced the political process to a level of mindless slogans, trivial issues, & meaningless simulation. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.