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...confused minutes after the flummoxing, unsummarized decision came down, its meaning depended on what network you were watching. On MSNBC, Gore was toast. On CNN and Fox, he still had a chance. ABC's Jackie Judd and Jeffrey Toobin, asked for their instant read by Peter Jennings, reacted as if served a baked rat. ("I'm going to turn it over to Jeffrey Toobin," she offered; "I was hoping to turn it over to Jackie," he demurred.) NBC's tag team of Dan Abrams and Pete Williams flipped madly through the opinions, looking with their topcoats, windswept hair and booklets...
...Gore, those around him say, the setbacks stiffened his resolve even more than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...
...ironically, his case would not have had nearly as much resonance if Time Warner had not committed what one of its own executives calls "the stupidest business decision of the year." On May 1, after months of wrangling with Disney over a new retransmission contract for Disney's ABC television stations, Time Warner Cable shut the network off its system in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles...
WCVB, Boston's ABC affiliate, reported last night that police said Palmer-Sherman may have been first struck by another driver. The driver, who was arrested Sunday evening, told police he did not realize he had hit anyone, WCVB reported...
...Palestinians were not alone in expressing caution over weekend. Vice President-elect Dick Cheney told ABC News that "there are concerns that the way the Clinton administration operated, at least in the past year or so, in the Middle East [has] made it more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention...