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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
News anchors, including from Fox News, forcefully called out Trump after he prematurely declared himself the victor of the 2020 election — New York (CNN Business)News anchors forcefully called out President Donald Trump early Wednesday morning after he prematurely declared himself the victor …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
On Wednesday morning, Fox & Friends was supporting Trump's attempted election theft, priming its audience to treat the ongoing counting of ballots as fraudulent — With the presidential election still up in the air as ballots continue to be counted in key states, President Donald Trump …
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Jeanie Pyun / Hollywood Reporter:
Ted Koppel, Judy Woodruff, and Brit Hume, who covered the 2000 race for ABC, Fox News, and CNN, remember the 37 days after the dragged out and “scary” election — At ABC, Fox News and CNN, Ted Koppel, Judy Woodruff and Brit Hume covered the Al Gore versus George Bush race until …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Remembering premature media projections in 2000 of the winner of the Bush-Gore race, and how media executives say they will be incredibly careful, this time — Twenty years ago this week, I begged my bosses to stop the presses so we could avoid reporting a huge story that wasn't true …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sinclair Broadcast Group Q3: revenue was up 37% YoY to $1.54B, net income of $161M, and political ad revenue grew $6M from Q3 2019 to $109M — “While core advertising trends in our broadcast segment continue to face challenges due to the pandemic, we did see improvement as we moved through the quarter."
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Election results show media's failures in covering the Latino vote and that Trump successfully convinced huge swaths of the US that the media spins fake news — By early morning Wednesday, there was a lot that millions of anxious Americans didn't know. — Mainly, they didn't know who the president-elect is.
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Anchor Linsey Davis says ABC News Live streaming service averaged 23M monthly viewers from March to August, up 118% from the previous six months — Anchor Linsey Davis tells TheWrap that timing and the ability to deliver context without time constraints led viewership to surge
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Canada proposes to regulate global streamers like Netflix and Disney+ in the country, requiring them to invest $800M+ in Canadian content creators by 2023 — Ottawa unveiled Bill C-10 to collect $800 million from foreign streaming platforms by 2023 to tell Canadian stories.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WSJ converted an internal tool for reporters into Talk2020, which lets readers search a database of transcripts to see what the candidates said about an issue — When I was growing up, every holiday meal was interrupted, at least once, by someone leaving the table to gather supporting materials …
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Firat Kozok / Bloomberg:
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok were each fined $1.2M by Turkey for failing to appoint a local representative as required by a new law — - YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok also fined $1.2 million — Firms failed to appoint a local representative as required
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The apparent failure of polling is a disaster for 538, NYT's Upshot, and others and a catastrophe for democracy as public opinion data becomes unreliable — Even with the results of the presidential contest still out, there's a clear loser in this election: polling.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast is in talks with Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs, as the cable giant looks to become a dominant hub for streaming apps — Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
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