So what makes the commercials so special? Most people would probably say the surprise factor. In fact, a great deal of people watch the big game just to catch the commercials. People don’t want to feel left out the next day at work when their co-workers ask them, “Did you see that Darth Vader kid? [...]

Some of us remember—and some of us have read about—the first televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1960. At a time when television was cutting-edge technology, it can be argued that Nixon lost that debate, and subsequently the election, because of how he appeared to the public on the [...]