Jul
29
'Historic' Hillary and the Stunt That Wasn't: DNC Diary, Day 4
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Maybe Hillary’s speech didn’t land for me the way it was supposed to because, being in the arena, I had an intimate view of the all the stagecraft and choreography — i.e., the inauthenticity involved in trying to convey TV-ready authenticity, enthusiasm and emotion.
Case in pont: the “card stunt.”
Unless you were watching C-SPAN or a livestream of the DNC, you probably missed the “card stunt” instructions those of us in the arena received just before 10 p.m. (the big networks and cable-news networks were apparently using this time to let their team of commentators do some commentating). A robotic-sounding female voice addressed us:
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