I, too, was following the MSNBC/CNN/ABC path, the first because I like the anchors (I share your feelings about Ms. Wallace, despite her unfortunate past), the second because it just seemed like a clusterfuck (any network that gives Blitzer and Santorum gainful employment just leaves me scratching my head), and the last to see if I could find Nate Silver explaining how the pollsters screwed up again.
My favorite part of the evening may have been Kornacki's meltdown after Trump's acceptance speech. He went ballistic and nearly put his finger through the magic screen. My least favorite part of today (and probably tomorrow) is the wall-to-wall coverage of (almost literally) nothing happening, but the same analysts and pundits still going over and over and over the same ground. If you've got no real news to cover, get off the air. --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 2:51:30 PM UTC-8 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/ab0ca343-1544-4ed0-87c7-d0297634d957n%40googlegroups.com.
