Coverage?

Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 17:58:48 EST 2016


We carried the BBC World Service for an hour or so after hours of NPR
coverage and 2 hours of statewide coverage that was somewhat abysmal

Paul

On Thursday, November 10, 2016, Don <astelle.donald@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> From: "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
>
>
> I mostly followed CNN.  What I liked was that they were able to break down
>> a state by counties and say where the still-uncounted votes were.
>>
>
> Maybe it's me...but I got tired of the endless math and county by county
> zooming in...
>
> I liked when the coverage could talk about "trends"....and trying to make
> sense of what was happenning.
>
> Personally, I ended up on FNC a lot, to hear the commentary of what was
> unfolding...and why.  (Again, I thought CBS had the most booooring
> coverage.)  I know a lot of people think of FNC's Brett Bair as a
> lightweight, maybe because of his sort of gentle voice, but he seemed to
> handle live TV well and have a handle of the nuance's of the data.
>
> I did turn to the BBC Channel a few times...and they were discussing with
> some amusement the US election rules that throw it into the house of
> representatives...they all looked amused at this rule.
>
> (As a side note, it's interesting that all the US news outlets all have
> very photogenic men and women on with perfect hair makeup and clothes and
> the BBC didn't seem to value that....I got the feeling these were much more
> "working journalist" who just came in from the newsroom to deliver some
> peice of news, etc.)
>
> ;-)
>
>
>


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