FILE PHOTO: Republican supporters react after tv networks announced that Texas Governor George W. Bush won the U.S. election in Austin, Texas, November 8, 2000. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
In this year’s matchup between Republican U.S. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, TV networks are facing greater pressure than ever to report election results accurately and without unwarranted speculation. Among the nation’s - and the networks’ - challenges are a president stoking fears of ballot fraud, a deeply divided electorate and the specter of a prolonged vote count, which raises the potential for protests, violence and lawsuits.
Walt Disney Co’s DIS.N ABC News and ViacomCBS Inc VIACA.O- owned CBS News have voter integrity units dedicated to topics such as foreign election interference and how the vote is tallied, state by state. CBS is using its “Battleground Tracker” that combines polling, files on voter participation, U.S. Census data and historical patterns.
Networks may benefit from an adjustment in pre-election polling since 2016: Weighting state polls for education, not just gender and age. In the 2016 election, a voter’s education figured prominently in whether they would vote for Trump or Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton. Whites without college degrees turned out for Trump in greater numbers.“We will project states’ [results] in the normal way. But getting to that point of confidence ...
hcoster We want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
hcoster That’s why a single website that shows voting results is all we need. Talking heads are useless.
hcoster Should follow the British practice. The only election coverage on Election Day is filming the party leaders casting their votes, and reporting whether voting is brisk or slow. Otherwise, nothing until the polls close, when they report the results, overnight, as they come in.
hcoster They never will!
hcoster Unwarranted speculation? They are already proclaiming a Biden win.
Aim for rigging
An article like this really brings out the anti-media trolls. Pay no attention. Journalism is alive and well amongst the noise. Intelligent people know this.
That means Fox will call it for trump 6 hours before the polls close 🤔
Of corse they will. Gotta wait for those mysterious late ballots to show up in key battleground states
Corporate media cannot be reliable. Their 1 goal is profit, not truth. The best you can get from corporate media is the opinion of the ruling class, and that's terrible. Independent media such as MintPressNews and democracynow are reliable.
The networks have no credibility. Partisan hacks the lot of them. Watch footage from 2016. Hacks.
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2020 really will be year of firsts.
No, they really don't. Stop it, .
Fox News will be the only network to project Trump as the winner on election night, but other networks will wait weeks to declare he has finally won.
media network credibility = almost as big an oxymoron as military intelligence!
Credibility, huh? Kind of late for that isn’t it?
Laughable. Including Reuters.
Lol, the media hasn't aimed for credibility since Obama was elected.
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I've heard that if Biden wins Florida the election could be called shortly past 9pm. Just saying.
When it comes to counting votes in a presidential election, I prefer accuracy over speed...
Reuters won't, for them Biden has won
it's always good to try new things
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