08 Election
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Election night reveals a whole new reality in network TV coverage
Posted by Daily News on 05 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Journalism, 08 Election
| By David Hinckley, NY Daily News After 18 months of unrestricted projection, speculation and analysis about how America would vote in the 2008 presidential election, TV was stuck last night with the actual information. |
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Audit Roundup: Obamanomics
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 05 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: North America, Commentary, Economics, 08 Election, Economy
Bloomberg, the Journal, Times and Post look ahead to the economic change likely under an Obama administration.
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World Marks Historical Election Win
Posted by MediaChannel on 05 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Africa, Asia, VIDEO, Obama, Middle East, 08 Election
From Europe to Afghanistan, and from Asia to Kenya, people all over the world have become keen to know what Barack Obama’s victory means for them. Al Jazeera’s Dan Nolan looks at the world’s reaction so far.
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Networks vow to be patient, to a point, in projecting presidential winner
Posted by LA Times on 04 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, 08 Election
| By Matea Gold, LA Times Officials at the broadcast and cable networks as well as the Associated Press said that they would not project a president-elect until one nominee has at least 270 electoral votes in his column. And they won’t award any electoral votes from a state until after all the polls in that state are scheduled to close. |
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Politics and Social Networks: Voters Make the Connection
Posted by Washington Post on 04 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New Media, 08 Election
| By Jose Antonio Vargas With the Internet making it easier than ever for voters to fund a candidate, act as their own publishers and search for information (and misinformation), the Washington political establishment — candidates, strategists and journalists — has been forced to loosen its grip on setting the narrative of the campaign. |
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In the Last Week, Numbers Make the News
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 04 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, 08 Election, Media Analysis
| By Mark Jurkowitz, PEJ In the final week of the campaign, both presidential candidates continued to pound away at each other’s economic policies. But as they examined the details of the last polls, the battlegrounds, and the strategy, the media had all but anointed a winner. |
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Color Blind: Barak Obama’s Uniqueness Versus the Black Spot of Race
Posted by MediaChannel on 04 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, 08 Election
| By Kookie Habtegaber Coming from a country where American foreign policy has meant I could not grow up knowing my family and relatives, who were embroiled in a 30 years struggle for independence, you can imagine politics has never been far away from my table or from that of the Eritrean people. |
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5 More Friends Uncensored
Posted by MediaChannel on 04 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, VIDEO, 08 Election
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal, are featured in this public service announcement to encourage people to VOTE!
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Campaigns in a Web 2.0 World
Posted by NY Times on 03 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New Media, 08 Election
| By David Carr and Brian Stelter, NY Times For many viewers, the 2008 election has become a kind of hybrid in which the dividing line between online and off, broadcast and cable, pop culture and civic culture, has been all but obliterated. |
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Election Protection Wiki
Posted by PR Watch on 03 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Action, New Media, Activism, 08 Election
| By Center for Media and Democracy The Election Protection Wiki is a non-partisan, non-profit collaboration of citizens, activists and researchers to build a one-stop-shop for reports of voter suppression and the systemic threats to election integrity. |
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Video The Count: What To Do On Election Night
Posted by MediaChannel on 03 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, VIDEO, Action, Activism, 08 Election
Exactly what to look for and video on Election Night to protect the count. While most people are out watching the VOTING, not nearly enough people are watching the COUNTING. Your patriotic services are badly needed. This video shows what happens to the vote data on its journey before results are reported.
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Thirteen Election Integrity Experts: E-Voting Problems and How to Stop Them
Posted by MediaChannel on 30 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, 08 Election
| By Jim Cirile, Velvet Revolution Thirteen election integrity experts and activists discuss the e-voting challenges and solutions for 2008. |
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Why Would Anyone Want to Stop You From Voting?
Posted by MediaChannel on 30 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Activism, 08 Election
VideoTheVote.org needs you to document the election in your community. Because all Americans should be able to cast their votes and have them counted.
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Obama’s 30 Minute Pitch & Daily Show Interview (Videos)
Posted by MediaChannel on 30 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: North America, Commentary, Obama, 08 Election
Watch Obama’s interview with Jon Stewart and his 30 minute pitch to America, includes a review by Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian.
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How Different Media Have Covered the General Election
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 30 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, 08 Election, Media Analysis
| By Project for Excellence in Journalism When it comes to coverage of the campaign for president 2008, where one goes for news makes a difference, according to a new PEJ study. |
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