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Best Coverage

  • 06-11-2012 10:46pm
    #1
    bajer100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭


    Where is the best online live coverage of the election? I'm currently watching Sky, but their coverage is atrocious.


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  • #2
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,464 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    MOD COMMENT:
    Please be advised that this OP will be left temporarily so that our member can get help, then be deleted, as it falls way below standards.


  • #3
    Amerika
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭Amerika


    I would suggest for as unbiased coverage as you can get...
    http://www.c-span.org/


  • #4
    bajer100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭bajer100


    I appreciate you accommodating me. Would you like me to qualify my opinion, and thus, hopefully raise it above standard?


  • #5
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Amerika wrote: »
    I would suggest for as unbiased coverage as you can get...
    http://www.c-span.org/

    That's not on for another 3 hrs is it? I'm guessing coverage will start at 01:00 Irish time?


  • #6
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,732 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Black Swan wrote: »
    MOD COMMENT:
    Please be advised that this OP will be left temporarily so that our member can get help, then be deleted, as it falls way below standards.


    Its not April 1st so I am confused .....

    It falls way below what?


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  • #7
    Amerika
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭Amerika


    joseph brand wrote: »
    That's not on for another 3 hrs is it? I'm guessing coverage will start at 01:00 Irish time?

    You are correct, but there isn't much worthwhile until after the polls start closing and precincts start reporting.


  • #8
    Midlife Crashes
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Midlife Crashes


    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert doing live election coverage online. Streaming at http://www.comedycentral.com/. If it's not available outside the US you could probably find it somewhere else online.


  • #9
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    MSNBC coverage here, with Chris Matthews, available in Ireland.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Who's the old lad on Fox?


  • #11
    bajer100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭bajer100


    @Joseph - thanks. That's much better than the biased Sky coverage.

    @BlackSwan - could you please reply and explain how my OP was below standard, and why you felt the need to insult me by describing it as such? I'd actually be obliged if you could please remove that comment. It is quite insulting.


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  • #12
    jimmyjon
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭jimmyjon


    A mixture of Fox News for the lols and CNN for proper balanced and occasionally extremely high tech (eg holograms) coverage.


  • #13
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,694 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Midlife Crashes wrote: »
    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert doing live election coverage online. Streaming at http://www.comedycentral.com/. If it's not available outside the US you could probably find it somewhere else online.

    This is exactly what I'll be watching.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • #14
    bajer100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭bajer100


    The MSNBC coverage is a bit disappointing. They are currently talking about policies etc. What I am looking for is a news feed that that focuses on who will win! It seems quite simple to me. You focus on the swing States and look especially at the crunch States of Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado.

    Sky's coverage really annoyed me earlier. They put up lovely graphics and announced how it could all come down to Florida. But the graphic in the background that they were basing that opinion showed Ohio and Colorado as going to Romney. Obama is odds on to to win both of those States - that's when I decided to look for alternate coverage.


  • #15
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    bajer100 wrote: »
    The MSNBC coverage is a bit disappointing. They are currently talking about policies etc. What I am looking for is a news feed that that focuses on who will win! It seems quite simple to me. You focus on the swing States and look especially at the crunch States of Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado.

    They're just going through the usual programming at the moment - Hardball, Martin Bashir etc - the actual main event program will be helmed by Rachel Maddow, with (probably) Chris Matthews, Steve Schmidt, Chris Hayes, Al Sharpton, Karen Finney etc., etc.

    My vote (geddit?) will be for MSNBC. Maddow alone raises it a cut above, but it's always a lively forum and if Matthews goes nuclear, get the popcorn.


  • #16
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    bajer100 wrote: »
    @Joseph - thanks. That's much better than the biased Sky coverage.

    @BlackSwan - could you please reply and explain how my OP was below standard, and why you felt the need to insult me by describing it as such? I'd actually be obliged if you could please remove that comment. It is quite insulting.

    OP, two points:

    1. this is a political discussion forum, and posts that do not start political discussion are 'below standard' - that includes posts which are better suited to personal blogs or help forums. You've been offered some opinions, but this is not a political discussion, nor did your OP attempt to start a political discussion - you were clearly asking for personal recommendations, which is outside the remit of the forum, and suggests you didn't read the Charter.

    2. do not discuss moderation on thread.

    moderately,
    Scofflaw


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