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...Meanwhile, over at CNN, you have to wonder if the first cable news network hasn't finally become the new PBS, and not in a good way. (Let's assume for the sake of argument it's possible for that phrase to be taken in a good way.) Thoroughness, yes. Crack, thoughtful analysts and reporters, sure. But CNN's coverage tonight lacks any sense of excitement and urgency. Bill Schneider, Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff and Jeff Greenfield, spread out along a giant desk, come across at times like four strangers laconically chatting while waiting for a bus. And though...
...Ahem. Let it be noted that CNN, ABC, CBS and, finally, NBC have moved Florida back into the "too close to call" column. "If you're disgusted with us," said Dan Rather at CBS, "frankly I don't blame you. But everybody in the business virtually has called Florida for Gore based on data that turns out to be suspect...
...With the electoral stream slowing and a potential long wait ahead for Florida, there's little left to do but interview party mouthpieces and spin out scenarios, the most popular current one being an electoral tie. Which made CNN's political analyst Jeff Greenfield, who described just such an electoral scenario in his novel "The People's Choice," something of an instant expert. It led to an inadvertently embarrassing moment though, when Bernard Shaw, evidently less than thoroughly familiar with his colleague's work, asked Greenfield, "How did the electors in your novel work out?" (Greenfield, to his credit, didn...
...note, by the way, that Bush's victory in Florida and thus the nation was then announced, in order, by CNN, ABC and Fox, all of which I trust you'll find will still be in business tomorrow. Although, after the Voter News Service debacle of earlier in the evening, Peter Jennings of ABC was positively spooked by the thought of declaring any victor in the campaign, ever: "Unless there is a terrible calamity," he hedged. "George W. Bush will be the next president of the United States." Shortly after - at least in New York ABC weirdly switched, mid-report...
...finally, Most Apt Prophecy of the Evening: Jeff Greenfield, CNN "If Bush wins Florida, there could be some exit-pollers looking for a new job." Who knows? The new administration might well be glad to have them...