Swearing in, swearing off.(how news networks cover elections)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 2001 by Albiniak, Paige

Network news chiefs pledge to improve coverage and to hold off projecting states until all that state's polls are closed News networks will change the way they cover elections to ensure that they never repeat the mistakes they made on election night 2000. That was the message from major news network chiefs to the House Energy and Commerce Committee last Wednesday.

Those changes include agreeing to no longer project winners in a state until all the polls in that state are closed and improving the much maligned Voter News Service, which they intend to continue using. They also supported uniform poll-dosing legislation. While the heads of ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press all made the trip to Washington for the...

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