Does anyone have a link to The Kornacki Meltdown? I would like to see that.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 03:47 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ab0ca343-1544-4ed0-87c7-d0297634d957n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABru7%2BeOufousTAfM8qy_MEcxRFX6rAEpXTfiQpCKvGY%3Dgu0qg%40mail.gmail.com.
