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...Heaven knows what that means." -Andrew Sullivan, Monday night on MSNBC, on the reports of rain in the Rust Belt Tuesday...
...Well - it's about the weather, anyway. For the past 24 hours, the cable news networks have turned into so many franchises of The Weather Channel, hauling out the Doppler machines and precipitation maps almost as often as those goofy electoral maps. (More on those later.) Between CNN, MSNBC and Fox, we've heard more about the weather in the Dakotas than we're likely to hear in a lifetime. (I for one was surprised to learn there are times in the upper Great Plains when it doesn't snow.) MSNBC supplemented footage of Fred Rogers going to the polls...
...Biggest Potential Gloating Rights: MSNBC. Or really, the MSNBC/Reuters tracking poll. For the last week or so, the poll had the race tighter than any of the major tracking polls, by a few points. By Monday, when the poll actually showed Gore leading Bush by two points, MSNBC's anchors introduced its results sheepishly, noting that every other poll disagreed with them and embarrassingly following it up with another poll from its parent, NBC, that showed Bush with a three-point lead. The poll's actual Gore lead may not be vindicated, but it's at least looking...
Suspicious of the vice president's claims after last week's debate, the executive board member of the Harvard Republican club was just a few steps away from a computer connected to MSNBC's online fact checking website...
What it can do is use its superior resources to do better live broadcasting than anyone else, airing it on CNBC, MSNBC or whatever other channels its corporate protoplasm will have sucked up by then. And when someone starts pirating live foreign TV broadcasts and putting them online, NBC should make sure it has online live video so comprehensive and tricked out with bells and whistles that no one will want to go anywhere else...