Posted on 06/28/2004 8:04:29 AM PDT by mhking
Global News responds to changes in the rules on reporting election results, and for the first time, viewers can watch the results roll in while polls are still open across the country.
Decision Canada coverage begins with a special election night edition of Global National with Kevin Newman beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET followed by live election coverage beginning at 7 p.m. ET on June 28.
Decision Canada coverage will feature exclusively Professor Barry Kay of Wilfred Laurier University, whose seat projections throughout the campaign created national headlines.
CanWest News Service Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife will share his experience and expert analysis to provide context and colour commentary and former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning will also join the broadcast to give viewers an inside view of the political process playing itself out on election night.
Additionally, Global News will break the rules of traditional election night television coverage giving viewers seamless access to local as well as national results all night long.
Instead of waiting for the first polls to close, viewers will see a special election night edition of Global National with Kevin Newman.
* Instead of panel discussions stacked with partisan commentators, viewers will get election results and meaningful analysis from regional return desks. * Instead of national results overshadowing local races, viewers will get 30 minutes of local election coverage every hour. * Instead of live coverage from only the national party headquarters, viewers will get that plus live coverage of key races from individual ridings across the country. * Instead of confusing information overload, Global News will use new interactive display technology to provide viewers with a clear understanding of the dynamics behind the results - who voted for whom and why. * Instead of an election set, viewers will see a working newsroom. * Instead of political pundits, viewers will hear about the races in their home ridings from local reporters.
From 6:30 p.m. ET, until a winner is declared, Global News will provide viewers with the most up-to-the-minute results on the national as well as local scenes.
Viewers can also get full election results from every riding across Canada at decision.canada.com live throughout the evening. The Decision Canada web site will also feature the latest election stories and exclusive post-vote polls, blogs and discussion.
Just damn.
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Maybe next time , they can give the results before the election?
They will show stories that will frighten voters further west to vote against the conservatives and to get others out to do likewise. They'll show conservatives eating babies, crushing kitties, stealing pennies from orphans, pouring crude oil into the water supply and publicly whipping sensitive fairies. They'll do this objectively, of course, but they will bring their truth to the normal voters who don't like the corruption of the left wing.
Who will ever know if the exit poll be conducted and broadcast as news actually invlves a real voter or an actor/activist who has been practising he answers for weeks? It is a lot like the media's efforts in 2000 in the US to fake reports in Florida to influence voters in California.
Is this Canada.com's attempt at sarcasm? Since the rules have been changed to allow reporting of results before the polls have closed across-country, as the story admits, no rule has been "broken."
This is not to say that the change of rule wasn't stupid. Because the population of Canada is basically centralized in Ontario and Quebec, often the election is a foregone conclusion before the polls close in BC, three hours later. Now someone can walk out of work in Vancouver, turn on the car radio, and learn that the election has already been won. Why bother voting?
The polls were still open in the panhandle of Florida when the networks called it for Gore. Estimates are it cost Bush tens of thousands of Florida votes from people who turned around and went home. BTW that is the MOST Republican part of Florida.
Heads up!!! FYI...
I don't even think it is right to tell the left coast how many more states they need when the polls on the east coast have closed. One area even kept the polls open late (Minneapolis?).
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