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Tuesday, November 02, 2004
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At 5:45 out-going anchor Tom Brokaw engaged in some definite spin. In a fairly detailed commentary about possible results, he described the internal process NBC is using. They have three sections reviewing polls, exit polls, and historical data. This is funnelled to their decision making desk, replete with staticitions and mathematicians who are interpeting these various data.
After he explained this process, he firmly grapsed the proverbial football and without hesitation, punted. Foreshadowing a possible embarrassment for network predictions, Brokaw expressed great uncertainty regarding " the historic turnout, the lack of polling of cell phone users and youth turn out". Tom is laying out the "Dog ate my Homework" line early.
I am expecting a major narrative arc (story line) to be the ROLE of NEW TECHNOLOGY. Expect a great deal of commentary from Joe Trippi to explain how the MSM (mainstream media) missed it, and how MSNBC has been, conversely, pioneering the Blog through the site in the title of this post. Trippi revolutionized Howard Dean's campaign by taking it on-line, providing the model historians will follow from this point out.
Having followed the MSNBC blogs since their inception, they have been watered-down versions of what most blog-readers actually read. Instapundit, Daily Koss or TalkingPointsMemo are some of the more popular political sites and have far more weight and 'street cred' the MSM blogs will ever attain, but at least MSNBC is trying to catch up.
HardBlog, the Blog affiliated with HardBall, the Chris Matthews vehicle, may be on record as being the first of MSM's attempts, but by far the best is BloggerMann, from CountDown hosted by Keith Olbermann. (Olbermann/BloogerMann get it?)
Olbermann, a former sports broadcaster and Fox network commentator has gained genuine credentials for his real-time blogging/criticism/scoring of the recent Bush/Kerry debates. Funny, insightful and accurate, Olbermann had developed a simple system that worked very well. His Blog, alone among MSM ventures, was picked up by the frontline blogs. Time viewing his blog is NOT time wasted.
He is my choice for first Blog Superstar. This recommendation has its limits though. Keep in mind that Keanu Reeves is, by definition of salary and gross (huh!) tickets sales, a Superstar, but Kenneth Brannah, a Shakesperian actor of great merit is unknown.
At 5:45 out-going anchor Tom Brokaw engaged in some definite spin. In a fairly detailed commentary about possible results, he described the internal process NBC is using. They have three sections reviewing polls, exit polls, and historical data. This is funnelled to their decision making desk, replete with staticitions and mathematicians who are interpeting these various data.
After he explained this process, he firmly grapsed the proverbial football and without hesitation, punted. Foreshadowing a possible embarrassment for network predictions, Brokaw expressed great uncertainty regarding " the historic turnout, the lack of polling of cell phone users and youth turn out". Tom is laying out the "Dog ate my Homework" line early.
I am expecting a major narrative arc (story line) to be the ROLE of NEW TECHNOLOGY. Expect a great deal of commentary from Joe Trippi to explain how the MSM (mainstream media) missed it, and how MSNBC has been, conversely, pioneering the Blog through the site in the title of this post. Trippi revolutionized Howard Dean's campaign by taking it on-line, providing the model historians will follow from this point out.
Having followed the MSNBC blogs since their inception, they have been watered-down versions of what most blog-readers actually read. Instapundit, Daily Koss or TalkingPointsMemo are some of the more popular political sites and have far more weight and 'street cred' the MSM blogs will ever attain, but at least MSNBC is trying to catch up.
HardBlog, the Blog affiliated with HardBall, the Chris Matthews vehicle, may be on record as being the first of MSM's attempts, but by far the best is BloggerMann, from CountDown hosted by Keith Olbermann. (Olbermann/BloogerMann get it?)
Olbermann, a former sports broadcaster and Fox network commentator has gained genuine credentials for his real-time blogging/criticism/scoring of the recent Bush/Kerry debates. Funny, insightful and accurate, Olbermann had developed a simple system that worked very well. His Blog, alone among MSM ventures, was picked up by the frontline blogs. Time viewing his blog is NOT time wasted.
He is my choice for first Blog Superstar. This recommendation has its limits though. Keep in mind that Keanu Reeves is, by definition of salary and gross (huh!) tickets sales, a Superstar, but Kenneth Brannah, a Shakesperian actor of great merit is unknown.
