Mid Term Coverage 2006

[Harry Hayfield]

The above news channels I am able to access on Sky Digital, I would like to know which ones members would recommend I watch on the night to get the same sort of coverage that I would expect from the BBC

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

ABC, then CNN

Don't ever watch Fox.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

"A.B.C." - Anything but CNN.

MSNBC if you can get it. 

[Deano963]

MSNBC and CNN

[Nym90]

CNN.

[ATFFL]

CNN, if you want to fall asleep.  Their coverage has gotten just plain boring.  CBS is entertaining, but the most biased of the lot.  Well, maybe not anymore.  Rather will likely not be in the big chair.   ABC used to be great, but they have lost a lot of their best people to other networks in recent years.  Not watched NBC in a long time cannot commen.

FOX is, by a wide margin, the most fun.  You usually have 6 people.  1 moderator (Brit Hume) who generally stays dispassionate (despite the fact liberals hate him, the Dems love to talk to him as he is the least confrontational person on FOX), 1 person analyzing polls and results who also generally stays neutral until near the end, and 4 talking heads.  Usually a 2-2 liberal-conservative split.  They will gloat like crazy over any good news.  You should have seen Susan Estridge and Juan Williams in 2004 early and then Krauthammer and Barnes late.

This year I am probably going to flip between CBS and NBC to see how they are following recent changes and switch to FOX at the end for the gloating.

[poughies]

When matthews is on, its MSNBC. For one thing, NBC is the only company who has a contract with a polling company that does polling on a state level (Mason-Dixon). Second, Chuck Todd and Charlie Cook make it killer. Also, how about that all day marathon?

[Joe Biden 2020]

When matthews is on, its MSNBC. For one thing, NBC is the only company who has a contract with a polling company that does polling on a state level (Mason-Dixon). Second, Chuck Todd and Charlie Cook make it killer. Also, how about that all day marathon?

All day marathon?  Intriguing!  If MSNBC has all-day coverage I will probably watch them all day.  I am skipping both my afternoon and evening classes that day to watch the election coverage.  I will probably get up around 6:00 and go to bed around 6:00 Wednesday morning.

[poughies]

well they did a couple weeks ago..... I'm not positive they will do the same, but i would think so.

[Keystone Phil]

I don't have much of a choice with where I will be but I'll be taping ABC and if I can pull of a duel taping, CNN, too.

[DownWithTheLeft]

FOX, the only network not to jump to call FL for Gore

MSNBC second, but I was upset w/their bias.  In 2002, they called the NJ Sen for Lautenberg w/0% reporting, but wouldn't call FL Governor for Bush w/60-40 split and 80% in