Journalists Believed Bush Would Not Win Reelection...
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I think Drudge got the headline right for this one (his was: Journalists Believed Bush Would Not Win Reelection...)
NewsWeek used the following (linked): Bush: 'Some Kind of Night'
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - In the campaign's final days, a nasty cold had been stalking its way through President George W. Bush's press plane, preying on the weakened immune systems of exhausted reporters. One stood at the front of the plane and begged photographers to stop taking pictures; the press corps was tired of getting calls from family members telling them how bad they looked.
The journalists were convinced Bush would lose. Backstage at rallies, reporters plugged the latest poll numbers into electoral math calculators on the Web. Kerry came out ahead every time. They gossiped about Bush's performance on the stump. "Doesn't he seem a little off?" a newspaper reporter asked me as we stood watching one of Bush's final rallies in Albuquerque, N.M. On Election Day the early exit polls seemed to bear out the correspondents' predictions: Bush was losing Florida and Ohio and was getting demolished in Pennsylvania.
... more at linked article
So, those journalists that were out breaking their journalistic ethics, trying to manipulate the news and news cycles (example: NY Times and CBS News and others), had high hopes that the end was near for Bush, and that they wouldn't have to wait through 4 more years?!
It's a great post-mortem on the lot of them. I still am glowing over the results, and am made even happier because the media got it all so wrong (much as they did in the last election). They're all still so convinced that it was part of a vast right wing conspiracy, that voting machines and results were rigged and that those stupid early exit polls had to be right.
To bad they missed polling so many of the real voters, and too bad many of them may have just out right lied in their responses. Many of them may have just had an attack of conscience when they voted.
Either way, the results are what they are, and Katy Couric and her friends will continue to have to suffer through the blackest days for the country while President Bush continues to shine on, reforming Social Security (which is going to happen!!!), reducing taxes, and spreading democracy throughout the world.
NewsWeek used the following (linked): Bush: 'Some Kind of Night'
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - In the campaign's final days, a nasty cold had been stalking its way through President George W. Bush's press plane, preying on the weakened immune systems of exhausted reporters. One stood at the front of the plane and begged photographers to stop taking pictures; the press corps was tired of getting calls from family members telling them how bad they looked.
The journalists were convinced Bush would lose. Backstage at rallies, reporters plugged the latest poll numbers into electoral math calculators on the Web. Kerry came out ahead every time. They gossiped about Bush's performance on the stump. "Doesn't he seem a little off?" a newspaper reporter asked me as we stood watching one of Bush's final rallies in Albuquerque, N.M. On Election Day the early exit polls seemed to bear out the correspondents' predictions: Bush was losing Florida and Ohio and was getting demolished in Pennsylvania.
... more at linked article
So, those journalists that were out breaking their journalistic ethics, trying to manipulate the news and news cycles (example: NY Times and CBS News and others), had high hopes that the end was near for Bush, and that they wouldn't have to wait through 4 more years?!
It's a great post-mortem on the lot of them. I still am glowing over the results, and am made even happier because the media got it all so wrong (much as they did in the last election). They're all still so convinced that it was part of a vast right wing conspiracy, that voting machines and results were rigged and that those stupid early exit polls had to be right.
To bad they missed polling so many of the real voters, and too bad many of them may have just out right lied in their responses. Many of them may have just had an attack of conscience when they voted.
Either way, the results are what they are, and Katy Couric and her friends will continue to have to suffer through the blackest days for the country while President Bush continues to shine on, reforming Social Security (which is going to happen!!!), reducing taxes, and spreading democracy throughout the world.
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