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> I feel the television has a huge importance in this country and the fact that millions of americans consider it the source of truth even to declare who is the
by piker 6y ago
> I feel the television has a huge importance in this country and the fact that millions of americans consider it the source of truth even to declare who is the winner of the most important event of their lives strikes me as unbelievable.
Huh? What's the preferred european medium? Smoke signal?
- serial_dev 6y agoVery clever with your smoke signal comments! Waiting for TV networks to call elections is not the same as having people watch TV in Europe. Getting angry at Fox News for calling Arizona is, for example, quite strange for me, because in my opinion, news networks shouldn't "call" the elections.
- mcphage 6y ago> Getting angry at Fox News for calling Arizona is, for example, quite strange for me, because in my opinion, news networks shouldn't "call" the elections. I think you're misunderstanding what it means to "call" the election. Fox News calling Arizona for Biden didn't make Biden the winner of Arizona. It merely meant that Fox News was confident that Biden won the election in Arizona. And yes, getting angry at Fox News for calling Arizona was strange.
- esoterica 6y agoThey media makes election calls in Europe too. If you don't understand how election reporting works in either Europe or America maybe you shouldn't be trying to smugly lecture other people. In case you don't believe me here is the BBC calling the general election for Boris before the votes were done counting: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50765773 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50765773