Word: posting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Internet: A landslide. This, at least, is the hopes of those renegade web journalists who plan to ignore the embargo on exit-poll results and post them as soon as they become available, while the TV networks sit on their hands. The bigger the win, the greater the margin by which Matt Drudge, say, can scoop Tom Brokaw. If winners start getting announced online early, expect pressure on TV to end-around the embargo by reporting the "news" of the leaks...
...first ones to call other people on it when their predictions are wrong, so it's about time I made one of my own: If George W. Bush loses, expect him to get the spanking of his life in the media. We got the first inkling of what the post-election story will be this evening, when MSNBC's Brian Williams remarked, after a couple of key setbacks for Bush, that in Austin, "The party seemed to be ready to start." In other words, Bush overreached. He was smug. That victory party, scheduled possibly to start even before West Coast...
...Then it was open season for those pent-up post-election platitudes. The requisite reminders that this wonderful country is capable of effecting a peaceful transition of power. The puzzled reflections that it was really Al Gore's election to lose. And at last, as memorably offered by the punchy Mr. Rather: "a big tip an a hip-hip-hooray and a great big Texas howdy to the next president of the United States. Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on a wall...
Sources: Washington Post; A.P., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Census Bureau; Los Angeles Times
CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS New research from the University of California, San Francisco, and Children's Hospital Oakland has found that post-traumatic stress syndrome affects children as young as age 7 more often than previously believed and for longer than parents think, even after minor accidents like bike crashes and falls. Postaccident, parents should be on the lookout for a change in grades, loss of concentration and increased tearfulness or jumpiness...