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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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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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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Despite a protracted count, the three major cable networks kept trying to sustain excitement over the US election rather than admitting there was no news — The networks are filling the airways with chaff, treating tiny developments like a major news. They should just tell us there's nothing to see right now, and move on.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sinclair Broadcast Group wrote down the value of its regional sports networks by $4.23B, after paying $9.6B for them in August 2019 — - Broadcaster paid $9.6 billion for the assets just last year — YouTube and Hulu recently stopped carrying Sinclair's channels
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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.
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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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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
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 …
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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Alexander Fanta / netzpolitik.org:
Google News Initiative has given funding to Rwanda's New Times, which NGOs call a state mouthpiece; it withdrew funding to a similar outlet in Hungary in 2019 — The Google News Initiative writes cheques to media around the globe, including pro-regime newspapers in countries under autocratic rule …
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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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