It was the night, " the parties began their slide to irrelevance," he said.
The second panelist was Nicholas B. Lemann '76, a former Crimson president, who has been a magazine and newspaper journalist for 25 years, and just recently stepped into the arena of political journalism.
Lemann argued the influence of the press in politics is relatively low. Compared to the 1960s, when a media mogul could make a president, "the political press feels like we don't matter...Nobody is listening to us anymore," he said.
Lemann sympathized with the television journalists who follow around Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69, but rarely see their stories make it on air.
The major impact that the press has had in this election, Lemann believes, is making Bush a viable candidate by highlighting his fundraising success.
Lemann said that journalists invited to speak with Bush come back saying, "He's not as dumb as I thought he would be."
The final panelist was political cartoonist Peter Kuper, who said he now exists in a self-proclaimed "netherworld between politics and Garfield."
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