MSM’s ELECTION COVERAGE

For starters, I got to cover the election from Grant Park in Chicago for PMW, so that was pretty amazing. Due to a lack of merit-based ticketing, major networks had front row access, while I got to watch from afar on the Jumbo-Tron. I watched CNN’s coverage before and after, because the other networks were pretty much in the tank for their candidates. Here’s my report card.

HIGH POINTS

Roland Martin
Three cheers for his emotional speech on racial reconciliation and his assertion that allies of people of color should share the feeling of triumph. Classy work from one of the few rising stars of the MSM.

Campbell Brown and John King
John King reports news! It’s astonishing. He has no business on a major news network. There was no nonsense, no celebrity references. He was explaining important information! Wow! He had his “magic wall.” (CNN’s words, not mine, wtf Anderson Cooper?) And Campbell? Uh, she’s just hot and actually smart, too, making her more hot.

Low Points
Paul Begala

He continues to benefit from sitting next people to more lame than he is, thus preventing anyone from realizing how lame he is. Along with Alex Castellanos and Bill Bennett, he was less annoying than usual, but still contributed little.

CNN LOLograms
Help me, Wolf Blitzer, you’re my only hope. These were very cool for the first 30 seconds, but quickly proved to serve no purpose. Yet another technological gimmick from CNN. But No Bias No Bull correspondents appearing “via hologram” (lol?) is not as scary as what is to come. One day we’ll be voting for holograms. Our presidents will be phony, empty projections of some special interest. That would be scary.

In closing, I salute John McCain for a classy concession speech. Way to salvage some of your dignity, sir. You lost most of it in your complex political battle with W, but I can sense there’s still good in you. PMW calls for a ceasefire. No more attacks on you, for now.