ICE CUBE'S "ARREST THE PRESIDENT": A NEW KIND OF MEDIA
Campaigning for 2020 has started with a bang featuring the usual media blitz, like TV interviews, Town Halls and print articles. What is notably missing are other kinds of campaign coverage, popular years ago before current media practices. Would you believe buttons, banners, flags, quilts, hats, and aprons took center stage to promote a presidential candidate, particularly popular during the Civil War period? Yet, campaign slogans were also important and represented media of a different kind. Consider "Let Us Have Peace" ( Ulyssess S. Grant- 1868 ), " A Square Deal All Around" ( Theodore Roosevelt- 1912 ), " Happy Days Are Here Again" ( Franklin Roosevelt- 1932 ), and " Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" ( Bill Clinton- 1992 ). The last two slogans were put to music which got voters' attention in an effective way. After all, William Saffire once said," Good slogans have rhyme, rhythm." Which