On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:11:47 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: > >> I particularly like how the blond woman does not understand why it makes >> sense to move the people in make the projections at a network away from the >> the analysts and commentators who are talking about the results on the air >> (every network now does this - at most I believe the ones making the calls >> are actually sealed off and do not know what anyone else is saying). >> >> > Unless I misinterpreted what I saw toward the end of the night last night, > it appeared that NBC's primary statisticians (a/k/a the guys making the > calls) were sitting in the same studio/booth/whatever the hell that was as > Tom Brokaw, although they had their backs to the camera and were wearing > crew/control room-style headsets (meaning that they weren't miced for > broadcast). > Joe Hass 10:24 AM (10 hours ago) New York magazine has an item up with the blow-by-blow. It turns out that the projection people at each network do have a connection with each other. If nothing else, the quote from the "Fox insider" in the sixth graf is priceless. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/how-rove-fought-with-fox-over-ohio.html PGage writes: I meant that the decision-makers are walled off and don't know what anyone else on their own air is saying - but this story from the Hollywood Reporter says that it was CBS, not NBC, that broke with that practice last night: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/election-night-power-failure-election-desk-387359 "With many pre-election polls finding a dead heat between Obama and Romney, there was much focus on the networks’ decisions desks, which are staffed with pollsters crunching exit poll data from the National Election Pool (made up of representatives from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press) in order to call states for the candidates. ABC News and NBC News sequestered their decision desks away from pressure packed control rooms. ABC News’ pollsters were ensconced at the network’s Upper West Side headquarters while election coverage originated from ABC’s Times Square studios more than 20 blocks south. The Fox News decision desk commanded an unexpected cameo during the network’s coverage when Karl Rove – a Republican strategist and principal of the Super PAC Crossroads GPS – disagreed with their decision to call Ohio for Obama. The on-air dispute caused anchor Megyn Kelly to march down to the decision desk office and interview the analysts about their methodology. They were 99.95 percent sure Ohio would go for Obama, they told her. CBS News broke with some of its network peers in that it did not sequester its decision desk away from the cacophony of the newsroom. The CBS News “election desk” was set up in a circular formation behind Scott Pelley’s anchor position in the main studio. CBS News president David Rhodes explained that he had no qualms about having “editorial conversations” with CBS News pollsters and analysts. “We are trying to be very transparent,” he explained from the control room on Tuesday night. “It doesn’t help to put [the decision desk] somewhere where people can’t see it.” -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
