My impersonation of John King on CNN last night: “Ok, let’s look at Florida, 2 percent has reported in, and these numbers could mean anything, they will change, and they just did, with 3 percent reporting, we see two counties have reported in, but these numbers aren’t necessarily reflective of the final count, so stay tuned. Ok? As I said that the numbers changed. Let’s compare those changes to changes from the Carter/Reagan election, but remember those numbers aren’t really a fair comparison, but let’s waste time talking about it anyway, no... wait... the numbers have changed again... with 4 percent reporting, these numbers will change, so stay tuned...”
Ugh. On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 5:32 PM 'bermuda999' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > CBS should have utilized the debate microphone MUTE button on Gayle King > constantly trying to interrupt election analysis > for her weak unfunny zingers that would barely be interesting on CBS This > Morning > Her participation was particularly horrifying next to Norah O'Donnell's > no-nonsense approach > John Dickerson was particularly quiet and deferred to the other panelists. > He actually looked exhausted > On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 5:51:30 PM UTC-5 PGage wrote: > >> I bounced around a bit last night and this morning (I was up until 4:00 >> am PT), but mostly watched NBC/MSNBC, CNN and ABC. >> >> I won’t spend a lot of time here trying to persuade a skeptical audience >> about MSNBC, I find their coverage to be fair to good. I love Nicole >> Wallace, who I think was the hero of the night in all the coverage I saw, >> because she stubbornly and persistently kept reminding people, even during >> the early Blue Mirage that got a lot of analysts obsessing on the >> possibility of a Blue Tidal Wave, that Biden’s focus was on WI, MI and PA, >> and that none of the early Blue losses should be allowed to influence the >> judgement of how a Biden was doing. She was absolutely right of course, and >> is charming and fetching as hell to boot. Also, I like Kornacki. >> >> On the other hand, I was simply appalled by how horrible CNN was. Bad, >> bad, bad. I am shocked at how much praise John King seems to get; he is >> horrid. He knows the actual numbers, but does not seem to understand >> context,mornworse,modes understand, but chooses to obscure it to pimp >> audience interest. Repeatedly I saw Kornacki report a result while pointing >> out that even though it looked good for either Biden or Trump, it was >> really bad or tepid, given that he was expected or needed to do better in >> that county in order to win the state. King OTOH repeatedly reported the >> same result, but would say something like: “is that enough for X? We will >> have to see.” Also, yikes, *Van Jones* and, icky, still in danger of >> getting a lot of Santorum on you when you watch CNN. >> >> What impressed me about ABC was the restraint of their projection desk, >> which not only more cautious than Fox and NBC, but also the very restrained >> AP. >> >> I had planned to watch more CBS but never got around to it, so not sure >> how they did. >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/25a35617-609a-4f50-907b-a18302aa5ad3n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/25a35617-609a-4f50-907b-a18302aa5ad3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AQugT8VKgnHyYoVWKR49gpstkxe71JiMp2X-kjLwO8Kg%40mail.gmail.com.
