Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Miserable election coverage

Both Fox and MSNBC don't know how to cover an election with more than two candidates. Watched both channels last night, 'cause I wanted to see how Super Tuesday came out. Hopeless. Never did they display a chart with ALL the candidates on it, ranked by vote totals or delegate totals. In stead they had a miserable tote board display that only had room for TWO candidates to show at a time. The turkeys then scrolled the display. By the time it had scrolled to the bottom you forget what the top results were.
Fox had a great big map of the USA with some states colored silver against a beige background. No state names, no capitals, no vote tallies, no color coding, nada. Even funnier, Bill Hemming finally tries to chalk up a vote total on the state of NY. Does he use a white board marker? No, Bill makes scribbling motions and two seconds later you see the numbers wipe onto the map from the electronic back room. We had better visual aids back in third grade.
Couldn't stay awake long enough for California to come in. So, next morning, I listen to NPR on the clock radio. The NPR guys are innumerate. In a half an hour of bloviating, they never told me the delegate count, or the vote totals. They used a lot of adjectives like big, heavy, large and so on, but never a number.

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