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...five-day-a-week grind. But I never really left the show. Then there was the Dana Carvey thing, which was a show that we all thought was funny but we obviously did it at the wrong time and the wrong place, after "Home Improvement" on ABC. Disney-owned. We signed up and then they were bought by Disney a month later, and yet we didn't stop to think that maybe we should adjust or rethink. We still opened the first show with the President breast-feeding puppies and kittens and we couldn't have angered the audience...
...other side of the field, Yale fans asked, "Why not let the 117th playing of The Game, determine the next leader of the free world?" in press releases distributed before The Game, ABC News reported...
...crowd whooped in Austin; and Gore called Bush to concede. Newspapers prepared BUSH WINS! front pages that would leave them black, white and red-faced all over. And the error traveled across news websites like a virus (including, for a while, TIME's). "Unless there is a terrible calamity," ABC's Peter Jennings called it, "George W. Bush, by our projections, is going to be the next President...
...event was moderated by Michel M. Martin '80, an ABC News correspondent who spent election night in the network's studios. Martin said that criticizing exit polling or premature network calls of Florida for either candidate is condescending to the public...
...there is more. When Ellis declared Florida for his cousin, he wasn't just following ABC, CBS and the rest. His call was the first, and appeared to precipitate a television-wide announcement: Bush had won the election. Not that Fox anchor Brit Hume was totally confident as he projected a Bush presidency at around 2:20 a.m. "I must tell you, everybody, after all this, all night long, we put Bush at 271, Gore at 243. I feel a little bit apprehensive about the whole thing. I have no reason to doubt our decision desk, but there...