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“..The three major cable networks continue to cover the no-news of the protracted count. But instead of honestly conceding that there’s not much to report and won’t be for hours or even longer, they’re attempted to sustain a permanent state of excitement, fluffing their viewers with fancy finger-work on their big boards, zooming in to individual counties in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, zooming out, tapping the various in-play states on the map to create competing scenarios in which Biden or Donald Trump crest the 270 summit. Everybody in TV news is guilty of this crime, but nobody has a bigger rap sheet than CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who can shout himself into a panic whenever a single county’s vote count inches upward.” —
Tags:
2020 election,
cable news,
CNN,
Fox News,
MSNBC
