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Even more to be deplored, says Rosenthali, "is the influence of TV on ... the press conference . . . Washington press conferences have been developed to the point where they often fulfill [a] function of the British parliamentary system: officials are confronted face to face with pointed and sometimes not too friendly questioning . . . With the beginning of the 1952 presidential campaign. TV insisted that ... it had a right to be in on all press conferences . . . But . . . televising the press conference just about destroyed [it]. The official being questioned realized that he was talking not to news specialists but to an audience of millions...