The Highlights to Last Night's Election
The Great Map, new for the 2012 election, Photo courtesy: A.V. Club
I read an article on what viewers
of the 2012 presidential election liked best about the election coverage. This review
was done by the A.V. Club and I found it really fascinating actually. I watched
the election last night, as did millions of other curious Americans to see who
would be their president for the next four years. I found some of the new
technology used to show the public who was winning each state in the Electoral
College to be quite interesting. I really liked how CNN used the skating rink
outside of 30 Rock into a giant map of the United States and then filled in
each state with the appropriate colors as the results came in.
I mainly just watched CNN, because
of its statistic and informative and not biased background. However, I did
watch Fox News too. I liked how you could see the same information shown to the
American public in an aggressive manner. Whether you are either conservative or
liberal, I found it entertaining watching the panelists create little concealed
digs and comments as the results were given. I found that Todd VanDerWerff
noticed the same impression with Fox. VanDerWerff stated that Megyn Kelly
appeared to be an overly obsessive news analyst in the way she questioned after
the election called for Obama to win the election.
I found it funny how Nathan Rabin
commented in the article by saying, “There’s a whole lotta weed on the ballot.
I thought this was really funny considering the group I watched the election results
said the same thing during the election. He stated that he found it funny to
hear the phrase “whole lotta weed” emerging from the newsman Brian Williams. As
funny as it may be, it is nothing but the truth in this year’s election. I also
found it hilarious how Josh Modell talked about watching Rachel Maddow from NBC
dreaming up conspiracy theories as Romney took the early lead. Which proved to
be unnecessary in the end, but was never the less an interesting part of last
night ruckus.
I was also impressed with the differnt technologies that were used to cover the election. I was also humored by the amount of speculation form both sides. In the end tho, I was impressed with the coverage.
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