Midterms: “A Wake” On Fox News; “Times Square” Graphics Overload On CNN

“Fox News went through most of the evening like it was at a wake,” Newsweek’s Marc Peyser writes in a review of election coverage. “Bill Kristol sounded like he could barely muster the energy to report the results, except when it came to regularly questioning the accuracy of exit polls, which he and his cohorts repeatedly insisted tilt Democratic.” He thinks the “Power Plays” graphics were silly, too.

“If the folks on Fox needed to take their vitamins, CNN seemed to have overdosed on something — or, rather, on everything. They had a blizzard of flat-screen monitors flashing so many results it was impossible to tell what any one of them said — it looked like Times Square.” More…

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