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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 — As Election Day 2020 coasted to a crawl and the West Coast voting precincts closed shop, the cable news networks were dazed to learn …
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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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New York Times:
Trump and advisers erupted when Fox News called Arizona for Biden; Jared Kushner called Rupert Murdoch, and Jason Miller asked for a retraction that didn't come — The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states' vote counts.
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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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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
YouTube says it won't remove an OAN video called “Trump won”, which claims Democrats are tossing GOP ballots, but says the video undermines election confidence — - Google-owned YouTube refused to take down a video that falsely claims Trump won the Presidential election and democrats committed voter fraud.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
NYT hits 7M subscribers as digital-only subscriber revenue tops print subscriber revenue, a first; Q3 net income doubled to $33.6M on revenue of $426.9M — For the first time, the publisher brings in more revenue from online readers than its print subscribers.
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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The Athletic:
Sources: ESPN is expected to announce layoffs this week, possibly as soon as Thursday, with remote production to be hit significantly — ESPN is expected to announce layoffs this week, possibly as soon as Thursday, sources tell The Athletic's Richard Deitsch.
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GlobeNewswire:
Tribune Q3: net income of $8.5M; revenue of $188.7M, down 20% YoY; ad revenue fell 38% YoY to $35.6M; digital-only subs hit 427K with revenue up 67.4% to $5.1M — Digital content revenues increased 67% year-over-year — Exceeded previous guidance for 3rd Quarter Adjusted EBITDA
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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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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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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 …
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