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Students involved in politics said they regularly spent hours reading popular internet news and commentary sources like politicalwire.com, wonkette.com, ABC News’ The Note and The Hotline, in addition to the websites of major newspapers...
...call as many contests as possible, but they will be relying on a new system. The old organization that conducted exit polls and counted votes for the networks, Voter News Service (VNS), has been dissolved and replaced by the National Election Pool (NEP), a consortium of six news outlets: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press. Veteran pollster Warren Mitofsky led a group that overhauled VNS's computer models, factoring in, for instance, voting patterns from three previous elections instead of one. Mitofsky and Edison Media Research will conduct exit polls, and the A.P. will tally votes...
...repeat of the 2000 debacle. "We're all agreed that the race is to be right, not first," says NBC News vice president Bill Wheatley. NBC will prevent analysts on its "decision desk," who will sift through the NEP data, from knowing the calls made by other networks. ABC News has a new policy of not calling a winner if the margin is less than 1%, even after all precincts have reported. CBS has moved its decision desk into the studio to give viewers a window into the process. "We'll be trying to explain very clearly where our information...
...Bush Administration had ignored repeated warnings that the situation was deteriorating. Bush blamed trial lawyers for driving so many manufacturers out of the market in the first place. But there wasn't much evidence that voters were buying any of it. Although 61% of participants in the latest ABC News poll say they are concerned about the shortage, the issue doesn't appear to be changing their minds about the candidates. "I mean, 40% of the people are going to blame the President for clouds in the sky," Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, told TIME...
Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, violated the commercial time-limits regulation roughly 600 times and breached the product placement rule on 145 occasions. Disney, via its ABC Family Channel subsidiary, faced similar, if less widespread, charges. But while both corporations offered predictable excuses for their transgressions—citing inadvertent errors resulting from computer and human lapses—the current culture of excessive commercialization is frightening, and the FCC was right to directly censure the companies...