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...Alabama, according to an NBC exit poll, Jackson won 60% of the black vote to 34% for Walter Mondale, who was backed by Joe Reed, chairman of the black Alabama Democratic Conference. (A New York Times/CBS survey found the Alabama vote split more evenly: 50% for Jackson, 47% for Mondale.) One weak spot for Jackson was the Birmingham area, where Mondale, aided by black Mayor Richard Arlington, trounced him by 2 to 1. In Georgia, where Mondale was supported by Coretta Scott King and State Senator Julian Bond, blacks cast 70% of their ballots for Jackson, 24% for the former...
...Peter Jennings used two of them in an opening paragraph on Super Tuesday. So did CBS's Dan Rather. NBC's Tom Brokaw employed a couple of them too, and his colleague Roger Mudd followed with a whole string. The popular words and phrases were variations on that old stand-by of political reporting, the expectations game-this candidate did better or worse "than expected," that candidate "had to" win here or capture some specified percentage of the vote there-and they set the tone for the evaluation of the evening's results. In a nomination battle...
...those who see the news media as unified into an almost conspiratorial entity, the commentary was confounding. On the crucial question of which candidate had the most cause to cheer, the networks could not agree even 24 hours later. NBC played the story on Super Tuesday night as a big comeback for Mondale. Brokaw referred to him as "alive and well tonight in this race." He was even a bit flippant about Gary Hart, comparing him to "this season's hit rock-'n'-roll single." But in its newscast the next evening, the network said...
...networks continued to forecast the outcome of races, often in advance of any actual tally, based on "exit polls" of people leaving voting places. While the real polls were still open, John Glenn was virtually decreed out of the race by reporters, including ABC's Jennings and NBC's Brokaw in live interviews. Said Glenn: "When you people make projections like that, it discourages an awful lot of good folks from going to the polls...
...saying that Florida "is not a true Southern state" and that Hart was "not a national candidate yet." Mudd asked, "Why do you imitate John Kennedy so much?" And in his closing question, Mudd urged Hart to "do your Teddy Kennedy imitation." The interview prompted 240 telephone calls to NBC in New York, many protesting Mudd's "bullying." Said Mudd: "People have gotten so used to soft and pappy questions in interviews that when they hear firm and brisk questions, they do not know what to make of it." He added that Hart answered the questions ably-perhaps better...