Mediagazer: Times Was Slower, but Sure, in Calling the Presidential Election (Margaret Sullivan/The Public Editor's …)

4:40 PM ET, November 7, 2012

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How Karl Rove Fought With Fox News Over the Ohio Call — Megyn Kelly in Fox's decision room. — Shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes assembled his network's election team in a second floor conference room at Fox's midtown headquarters to discuss the night's coverage.

Discussion: Capital New York and @brianstelter

Will Oremus / Slate:

The Five Stages of Fox News Grief — In Fox News' election coverage Tuesday night, there was little pretense of fairness or balance. What there was, from the start, was a glum tone that turned downright funereal by the time Mitt Romney finally conceded, near 1 a.m. To watch the network's anchors …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Times, Poynter, Tampa Bay Times and Capital New York

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Maddow Rips Karl Rove On Fox News

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Fox News Election Coverage: Questions Turn From President Obama's Victory To 2nd Term Mandate

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Amy Willis / Telegraph:
Republican Karl Rove calls Barack Obama Fox News projection ‘premature’

Discussion: www.wnyc.org, @huffpostmedia and The Huffington Post

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists — So Nate Silver won in 50 states; big data was the winner; and Nate Silver and data won the election. And somewhere along the lines some guy called Obama won something, too. — Elections set the pace …

Discussion: Forbes, Poynter, PandoDaily, Newsday, Gawker, CNET, The Spot, AdAge, The Wrap, Globe and Mail, GigaOM, Charlie Beckett and @sulliview

Trevor Butterworth / The Daily Beast:

Revenge of the Nerd: Nate Silver Is 2012's Other Winner — Like him or loathe him, Nate Silver is the election's other big winner. Trevor Butterworth on what that means for political reporting—and why Silver's reign might be short-lived.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Nate Silver's Biggest Critic Blames Botched Prediction, Romney's Loss On Hurricane Sandy

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Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:
Nate Silver's Model Proves To Be Stunning Portrait Of Logic Over Punditry

Discussion: Slate and The Huffington Post

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly: — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout Nov. 6, that cutesy, once-ubiquitous cartoon …

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Sam Youngman / Reuters:
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter's hour-long sustained peak of 9,965 TPS during election displays shift in how service is used

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Why the NYT announced Obama's win 49 minutes after Obama did — Last night, as the results of the 2012 election rolled in, millions of Americans were glued to their TVs, computers and smartphones. But depending on what they were watching and reading, some of them were either breaking …

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Times Was Slower, but Sure, in Calling the Presidential Election — A few observations on Tuesday night's online coverage and Wednesday's print edition: — The Empire State Building was in blue lights, Mitt Romney's Boston crowd was looking despondent, and even the careful Associated Press …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

25 election front pages let pictures speak louder with words — Photography dominated most of today's front pages, with very few words announcing President Obama's re-election. Several of the papers below illustrate the power of a single word. A few papers (shown at bottom) …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Capital New York and New York Times

Erik Wemple:
MSNBC's Matthews says he's ‘glad we had that storm last week’

Discussion: Mediaite

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Arrested Sun journalists are between a rock and a hard place — Arrested Sun journalists are finding themselves caught between a rock and hard place as they contemplate their dilemma while on police bail. Some of them would like to help Scotland Yard police who are investigating …

Guardian: Mirror Group journalists questioned by company lawyers over alleged hacking

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Diane Sawyer Has Read Your Tweets, ‘The Good, Bad and the Funny’ — ABC's Diane Sawyer, trending for a time on Twitter last night for what some are calling oddball behavior during election coverage, has taken to Twitter herself, acknowledging the chatter about her.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter and Lost Remote

Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse

Discussion: Gawker and The Atlantic Wire

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Cable Networks Help Time Warner's Quarterly Profit — A strong quarter at Time Warner's suite of cable networks contributed to the company's 1.9 percent increase in third-quarter net profit, but revenue was offset by continued weakness at its magazine and movie divisions.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Home Media Magazine, Reuters, The Wrap, Guardian and MediaPost

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

DC Comics Announces Deals To Sell Digital Comics In Big Three E-Bookstores, Says Digital Sales Have Grown 197% — DC Comics is announcing the next big step in its digital plans today, saying it will sell monthly comics in the Kindle Store, iBookstore, and Nook Book Store.

Discussion: paidContent, CNET and The Verge

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Cord-Keeping: Pay TV Shrinks for the Quarter, Stays Steady for the Year — What with the crazy weather and Nate Silver's ascension to geek heaven and everything else, not a surprise that we didn't get to this yesterday. But, for the record: The pay-TV business lost 127,000 subscribers last quarter.

Matthew DeBord / DeBord Report:

Could Rupert Murdoch buy both the LA Times and the Financial Times? — Rupert Murdoch at the National Summit on Education Reform on Oct. 14, 2011 in San Francisco. Could he buy both the Wall Street Journal of England and the L.A. Times? Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Felix Salmon / Reuters:
The FT in play — This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one …

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Based on network traffic alone, Netflix handily beats Amazon, HBO & Hulu — Netflix may have had a tough time with investors, but it's still a big hit with consumers, with none of its competitors even coming close to it in terms of usage: That's one of the key take-aways of Sandvine's …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If Facebook isn't thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be — It might seem a little early to start talking about potential Facebook acquisitions considering the social network just completed its $736-million purchase of Instagram, and its share price is still 40 percent lower than it was when the company went public.

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