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...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. The networks...
...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 comes from, that it's not someone standing over a crystal ball and going 'poof,'" says Kathleen Frankovic, director of surveys for CBS...
What's the world's most controversial TV news provider? It's not Fox or CBS. It's al-Jazeera, the subject of the award-winning documentary Control Room, now out on DVD. The disc adds interviews with both critics and employees of the Arabic television network. Director Jehane Noujaim spoke with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda...
...Today executive producer when Zucker, who was only 26 when he made the show the morning leader, hired a helicopter to buzz over an outdoor concert for ABC's Good Morning America. Then there was his recent quip to an industry trade publication that "most of the viewers of [CBS] are in nursing homes." At last spring's network up-front presentation, where advertisers decide how to spend their billions on the upcoming fall schedule, Zucker made the bold claim that despite the retirement of such stalwarts as Friends and Frasier, "[NBC's] Thursday nights are going to be even...
...Powell’s appointment by President Bush in 2001, Powell has championed increased media deregulation, delivering disgraceful amounts of power into the hands of ever-influential media moguls. Moreover, the current FCC has pursued a thoroughly flawed campaign against violators of media regulations. The commission recently issued CBS News the largest fine it has ever issued—for the less-than-horrifying sin of broadcasting a split-seond shot of one of Janet Jackson’s nipples last year. But, despite the commission’s problematic record, we must give credit where credit...