At the very beginning of election night, CNN commentator Van Jones predicted, “You can get Sisik tonight.”
That evening was a rare accurate prediction, medically and morally. The night began with Trump’s red crash on the Florida coast, led by Joseph R. Biden’s support for the campaign created a whirlwind of chaos, chaos and uncertainty in the West. At the end of the night the president jumped on the deck to rock the boat and at the end, everyone could use the drammine.
The thing is, the TV network anchor desk was already predicted. We’ve heard for months how an epidemic would upset vote count patterns, how a “red mirage” could create the illusion that President Trump was taking states in the early days with votes, or that the president would undermine the democratic process. The nights seen in the circle can lengthen to length. Sure, voting doesn’t call for this exact result – but 2016 told us voting could be wrong.
But while it’s one thing to know that election night could be a pandemonium, it’s another to experience it. In elections when context – not just numbers, but what numbers meant – was more important than ever, networks often struggle to convince their audience what they know, what they don’t know, and what they don’t know. . .
For instance, there was a question as to how you visually represent the “lead” in the states, where, thanks to Covid, there was an unprecedented amount of initial voting counted at different times in different states.
CNN sprinkled reminders of this in its coverage. But it also featured maps with the states of Democratic Blue and Republican Red, so that it could also indicate a little lead, so that at one point it would oddly show South Carolina as blue and Virginia as red, even though each state invited an opposition party. Was. Other outlets.
Sometimes, the responsibility for the stimulus is lost. At one point, Wolf Blitzer cited “surprising little” while Mr. Baden, led by Kentucky, was with 8 percent of the vote when he was not going to win the election on an election night written by drunken screenwriters. John King kept pushing his magic wall to a new limit of his ability, calling night crunching “entertainment”, speaking for exactly one constituency.
Channel hoppers may get the understanding that different networks report from different countries, and not for common ideological reasons. Fox News, which has worked with different sets of exit poll data this year than most rival networks, has been calling states earlier, sometimes by hours.
His most decisive decision was Arizona prime time for Mr. Biden, who turned the night arc again. (Mr. Trump won the state in 2016.) Anchor Chris Wallace compared it to a service break in tennis, which apparently led to some broken gaskets in the Trump campaign, which Fox’s Katie Pavlich reported as “once” ?) Favorite network.
Fox was previously stuck between data and its Rs. In 2012, then-anchor Megan Kelly joined former George W. Bush. Bush aide Carl Rowe was shot dead when he handed over to Fox’s Ohio Call for Barack Obama.
The network was stuck again by its decision desk on Tuesday, but the way it came out showed how much the network needs to shake up its base and how much has changed in the eight years since politicians released its phones. Increasingly, it grills analysts at its decision desk (setting up an independent unit to call races without pressure). When Chris Steerwalt, Fox’s politics editor, mentioned that the network doesn’t call Ohio cautiously, anchor Brett Bayer replied, “You weren’t careful, cautious, and noble from Arizona.” (Byrne later said he was joking. Ha ha?)
Midnight came and went, it became obscure, analysts from every network worked to work on the touchscreen, to calculate how long it would last until one of us got better again.
But, as it became clear that no decisive call was imminent, there remained a very predefined drama: what would Donald Trump say, and how would the network cover it?
Mr. Trump, a longtime fan of flexible accounting, had vowed that he would discredit any means of voting and counting that would not add to his main line. While the president’s words in controversial elections are news, they are also weapons; News outlets were well aware in advance that their organizations could be used to spread the impression that Mr. Trump’s Orvillean faxing – “allowing” his voters – would be legally given to others.
The president spoke at the White House, with flags flying over his walls and smoke on a flat-screen TV, the angry sequel to his 2016 surprise-win speech at a Manhattan hotel.
But where the tone of coverage of 201 coverage was reorganized, this time there was four years of training on what to expect in the outlets, with the President speaking and refuting it in subsequent cases. (“CBS News does not win the presidential race”), on CNN, “Trump says he will go to the Supreme Court; it is unclear why.”)
Calls for Patience were wound up at night with L, as the election, covered by a night of confused but sound reporting, prepared to enter the morning of Pandit and Spin. (By the morning, Fox’s election team had handed out items to “Fox and Friends,” with Brian Kilmade warning that Mr. Biden could “withdraw” the election by counting the remaining votes.)
So the conclusion – or not – the latest episode of the presidential serial that has been consistently shocking, though not surprising.
