Who is winning the election -- Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? That's a question election officials don't want answered prematurely this election year. So the major news networks have agreed to keep a tight lid on early exit poll results, which includes guarding against leaks via social media.
The Huffington Post reports news execs have committed not to broadcast exit data before polls close in each state. They will also avoid sharing early results with news staff, in attempt to prevent social media leaks.
In past presidential elections, early exit poll data has proven wrong. John Kerry was projected to win in 2004, and an Al Gore victory was projected in Florida in 2000, prompting confusion that led to massive recounts and lawsuits. Still some fear early data may discourage people from voting in a state they believe to be already called for one candidate or another.
Smaller news outlets are not part of the network agreement,...
The Huffington Post reports news execs have committed not to broadcast exit data before polls close in each state. They will also avoid sharing early results with news staff, in attempt to prevent social media leaks.
In past presidential elections, early exit poll data has proven wrong. John Kerry was projected to win in 2004, and an Al Gore victory was projected in Florida in 2000, prompting confusion that led to massive recounts and lawsuits. Still some fear early data may discourage people from voting in a state they believe to be already called for one candidate or another.
Smaller news outlets are not part of the network agreement,...
- 11/6/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The TV station business is becoming tougher by the day, but here’s something that could make things painful: The broadcasters’ biggest cash cow, their local newscasts, could lose lots of viewers as people discover that they can find the info they want more quickly and easily on mobile devices such as smartphones. That’s one of the many sobering findings from a study that examines how people discover what’s going on in their communities, out today from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Internet & American Life Project with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. ”For some things TV matters most, for others newspapers and their websites are primary sources, and the internet is used for still other topics,” says Pej Director Tom Rosenstiel. Newspapers satisfied the most needs with their coverage of issues including local government, taxation,...
- 9/26/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
Dan Rather's back in the saddle again.
The former CBS Evening News anchor will be on the air Tuesday night at HDNet for at least two hours of coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana presidential primaries. The coverage, which will partly air in the Dan Rather Reports time slot, will be televised live in front of an audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Guests include former U.S. Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif., political experts Donald Fowler and Peter Hart and media critic Tom Rosenstiel.
It's the fourth such nights of election coverage for Rather, who presided over two decades' worth as the CBS anchor. Without taking anything away from what the broadcast and cable nets do, Rather said that, by circumstance and design, HDNet is doing something different.
"If all we can do is do what the others do, there's no reason to do these programs," Rather said. "We're trying to take the audience inside the political process." So instead of video walls and short bursts of analysis between exit polls and election results, Rather and his team are going to have what he calls a "conversation" about the results and what they mean.
The former CBS Evening News anchor will be on the air Tuesday night at HDNet for at least two hours of coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana presidential primaries. The coverage, which will partly air in the Dan Rather Reports time slot, will be televised live in front of an audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Guests include former U.S. Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif., political experts Donald Fowler and Peter Hart and media critic Tom Rosenstiel.
It's the fourth such nights of election coverage for Rather, who presided over two decades' worth as the CBS anchor. Without taking anything away from what the broadcast and cable nets do, Rather said that, by circumstance and design, HDNet is doing something different.
"If all we can do is do what the others do, there's no reason to do these programs," Rather said. "We're trying to take the audience inside the political process." So instead of video walls and short bursts of analysis between exit polls and election results, Rather and his team are going to have what he calls a "conversation" about the results and what they mean.
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