“The nerds are freaking out,” said Brandon Finnigan, the founder of Decision Desk HQ, which delivers election results to media outlets. “I don’t think it’s penetrated enough in the average viewer’s mind that there’s not going to be an election night. The usual razzmatazz of a panel sitting around discussing election results — that’s dead,” he said. That risks coverage misfires: In 2018, cable news commentators spent election night suggesting that the “blue wave” hadn’t arrived. “It’s always an unfair standard to expect that kind of movielike experience on election night,” said David Scott, deputy managing editor at the AP.

Source: bd News24 October 31, 2020 16:07 UTC