1968 Presidential Election and the Media Journalists discussed the 1968 presidential election and the media, asking whether the media were participants in the elections or merely spectators? They also talked about the late 1960s, and whether people in the press thought the trend in society, in racial relations, in cities was toward a new liberal sociology of jurisprudence. They talked about the impact of the 1968 demonstrations and the demonization of the word “liberal.” They mentioned the dominance of television media by 1968. close