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To: HaveGunWillTravel
Paladin, my memory gets a bit befuddled thinking about that night. (It was not a pleasant evening after NBC handed it to Gore.) But I think you're right. I remember something about a Bush cousin keeping Fox News from falling for the Big Lie.
43 posted on 12/18/2003 10:37:53 PM PST by Publius
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To: Publius; HaveGunWillTravel; teeman8r; E.G.C.; imintrouble
Not true - certainly not true that FNC called FL for Bush before about 3AM - and even then, it was Bush's cousin who pushed for the call.

I am not certain that Fox followed the other networks into calling for Gore in the 9PM time frame or not - but I believe that it did. And that all of them rescinded that call an hour or two (maybe three) later.

It was amazing how little the networks said Wednesday morning about their own faux pas and how very much they made of the fact that the FNC analyst who made the first call of FL for Bush was actually a cousin of Bush.

But FL was just the extreme example of the general tendency of the night - which was that all the networks and CNN delayed calling just about every state for Bush far more than they delayed calling a state for Gore, the ultimate margin of victory being similar. There was only one state which was a clear exception to that general trend.

In the aftermath of that fiasco I started the following thread, which I have used since then as my repository of research on the media and the First Amendment:

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

89 posted on 11/01/2004 4:16:17 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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