Re: 2019 Elections
The media needs to come up with a new phrase to replace the incessant use of "too close to call." The Kentucky governor's election is not "too close to call." It looks to me like the democrat won by more than 5000 votes. In fact it is easy to "call."
Maybe there will be a recount. Maybe the whining biatch the republicans ran will do the mature and proper thing and concede. But the race is not "too close to call."
Say instead "with the polls closed and no more votes to be counted Beshear is 5000 votes ahead. His rival has yet to concede what appears to be a democratic win." That is factual and offers no commentary, how the news media should be going about reporting the news. Leave the rest to the editorializing talking heads.
By repeating time and again the race is too close to call you invite people to look for "irregularities" that simply don't exist. Of course if further reporting shows things changing, or someone provides some verifiable evidence of "irregularities" by all means follow up and report on that data. Don't feed the narratives that have all but destroyed our institutions.
The media needs to come up with a new phrase to replace the incessant use of "too close to call." The Kentucky governor's election is not "too close to call." It looks to me like the democrat won by more than 5000 votes. In fact it is easy to "call."
Maybe there will be a recount. Maybe the whining biatch the republicans ran will do the mature and proper thing and concede. But the race is not "too close to call."
Say instead "with the polls closed and no more votes to be counted Beshear is 5000 votes ahead. His rival has yet to concede what appears to be a democratic win." That is factual and offers no commentary, how the news media should be going about reporting the news. Leave the rest to the editorializing talking heads.
By repeating time and again the race is too close to call you invite people to look for "irregularities" that simply don't exist. Of course if further reporting shows things changing, or someone provides some verifiable evidence of "irregularities" by all means follow up and report on that data. Don't feed the narratives that have all but destroyed our institutions.
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