Politicians don't keep their promises. Campaigns are increasingly negative.
Attack is the dominant form of campaign discourse.
Both advertising and attack drive voters from the polls. Newspapers have lost their impact. Even while casting a more favorable light on the country's political condition, they avoid overoptimism, suggesting merely that the American political system, with all its faults, is resilient and self-correcting. By John C. Hartsock University of Massachusetts Press. Literary journalism is usually considered not literary enough for literati, not journalistic enough for journalists.