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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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


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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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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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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