“It’s going to be about: ‘What do we know in any given moment?’ and staying firmly focused on only those facts.”Ĭompared to election night features such as the white board Tim Russert scrawled on in 2000, many of this year’s tools will be decidedly more scientific. In separate interviews with Reuters about their plans for election night, top executives at five major news networks described a focus on restraint, not speed on transparency about what remains unknown and on a reassuring message that slow results don’t signify a crisis.Įlection night “is not going to be about storylines or narratives or projections or predictions,” said NBC News President Noah Oppenheim. Among the nation’s - and the networks’ - challenges are a president stoking fears of ballot fraud, a deeply divided electorate and the specter of a prolonged vote count, which raises the potential for protests, violence and lawsuits.
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, TV networks are facing greater pressure than ever to report election results accurately and without unwarranted speculation. In this year’s matchup between Republican U.S.
“As competitive as networks can be, you do know that you’re calling a presidency and you don’t want to be wrong on something like this.” “I think 2000 still sort of lingers over everyone,” said Fox News Media President Jay Wallace, whose network was among those that initially called Gore the winner. The only loss that night was the networks’ credibility. The election wouldn’t be decided for more than a month. The margin was so slim, Gore conceded, then took it back an hour later. television news executives see a cautionary tale in a notorious November evening two decades ago.Īfter major networks projected Vice President Al Gore the winner in the crucial state of Florida, they pivoted in the wee hours to calling his Republican rival George W. Oct 12 (Reuters) - In preparing for election night, some top U.S. (Repeating Oct 12 story without changes for wider distribution)
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