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blogs.cqpolitics.com - 8/26/2008
CNN Wins Race for Television Coverage
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Of all the television news coverage of the Democratic National Convention, CNN wins the prize for dedicating the most resources to covering this event. Like other networks, CNN has a traditional studio overlooking the stage at Pepsi Center. But they also have mini studios set up on the convention floor. They have even converted a restaurant adjacent to the arena into the "CNN Grill" with ...

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:  The Best Coverage of the Convention

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The Best Coverage of the Convention
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — With thousands of journalists covering the Democratic National Convention, it's not an easy task to break news. It's made all that much harder by an event so tightly-scripted that it's been called a four day infomercial. Nonetheless, kudos must go to two organizations for the best television and print/online coverage so far.

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Monday's convention was viewed by 22.3 million viewers. (For a sense of scale, that's about what American Idol got back in a standard week in April ). From MarketWatch : From 10-11 p.m. Eastern time, when ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, BET and TV One all carried live coverage of the convention, a combined total of nearly 22.3 million viewers tuned in, according to data from Nielsen Media ...
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Catching up on a tidbit from Monday night’s coverage, CNN co-anchor Anderson Cooper actually wondered aloud whether the evening’s line-up of Democratic speakers -- Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Jr. -- was “too liberal” to attract independent voters. Usually, the networks never even label Democratic speakers, while constantly berating Republican speakers as extreme or right-wing, ...
Is Leach the Canary in the GOP Coal Mine? — Comments from Left Field
Living in Canuckistan has it’s down sides, one of which is the lack of US news coverage in the evening pacific time. I had only two televised choices to catch up on the goings-on at the Democratic National Convention last night, MSNBC’s replay of the events or CNN’s whatever the hell it is CNN thinks they are doing. As you can imagine I chose the former and as such was left ...