Posted on 10/31/2004 12:26:42 PM PST by SmithL
NEW YORK -- Before 2000, the focus of television Election Night coverage was pretty simple: Count votes as fast as you can and explain why people voted the way they did.
Two trends in this year's plans show the residual impact of hanging chads and blown calls. Networks are intent on following potential voter irregularities and laying bare their own decision-making processes as results flood in.
ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC will all devote prime time to election results Tuesday night. Smaller networks with specialized audiences, like BET and MTV, have unprecedented coverage because of the intense interest in the presidential race.
Chip Reid will be stationed at the "Making Your Vote Count" desk at NBC News. ABC's Jake Tapper will deliver "Ballot Watch" reports. Mika Brzezinski at CBS, Major Garrett at Fox News Channel and Jeffrey Toobin at CNN all have the same assignments: Comb the country for reports of potential fraud or disenfranchised voters.
"We all got a civics lesson in 2000 so what we feel we need is some good intelligence with secretaries of state in every battleground state," said Paul Mason, ABC News senior vice president.
ABC's planning the days before the election resembles The Weather Channel's right before a hurricane makes landfall: Keep checking for where news is likely to strike before putting correspondents on airplanes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The enemy takes up it position ...and so it begins.
"Networks are intent on following potential voter irregularities and laying bare their own decision-making processes as results flood in."
Translation - Networks are intent on colluding with the DNC in creating false allegations of 'disenfranchisement' and propping up a losing candidate, while keeping focus off the fraudulent DNC voter registrations.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that this is how the media wing of the DNC will de-legitimatize this election. This might be the end of the American experiment.
One hint. See if Judy Woodruff shows up in a black dress or "I lost mine in Cancun" T-shirt.
Yep, get ready for the same CRAP they tried in 2000! Screw the liberal "news" media, FOX included.
That'll come as a shock to all those office 'squares' at $50 a pop. Name the time, to within ten minutes, when ABC first calls OH or FL or PA for Kerry, regardless of the numbers. Same for C-BS and NBC, surely CNN, heck these days, even FOX.
These 'professional-type journalists' will be watching the clock far more than any exit polls. Let's see, they'll say, is that 90 minutes until polls close in the FL panhandle? Mmm. Gee - looks like a Kerry blowout in FL. Who knew? Bush 25% and Kerry 115%. Don't even BOTHER, you Bush-voters, you.
Frankly, maybe without the cash winnings, we could take up a couple of charts on FR. Unfortunately, everyone would cluster at about the same time - maybe an hour to two hours before the close of voting in FL. But still.
Here is a sentence from the subject article:
"After the election, the story will be about how broken the election system is," NBC's Tom Brokaw said.
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As the whole world will be watching our elections, I pray to God that they will see that our election system IS WORKING. The liberal, anti-American news media hates it when the USofA looks good.
We are a country divided: those who love this Country, and those who hate it and want to see it taken down.
God bless America.
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