All The Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

"Twenty-four-hour cable; infinite news sources online; tweets and YouTube. It’s hard to remember a time when the political cycle was slower and more deliberate, and when the voter wasn’t exposed to every single twitch of the candidate. When did it all change? According to Matt Bai, it changed with Gary Hart in 1987. You think you know it all: Donna Rice, Monkey Business, Hart taunting the press. You don’t. The combustible mix of new technology and politics was birthed in this presidential campaign, and there was no turning back."