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To: Neocon who wrote (84722)	11/22/2000 9:31:58 AM
From: The Street	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think the fairest is the Canadian... Eh?

To: Neocon who wrote (84722)	11/22/2000 9:32:33 AM
From: Snowman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bill Schneider of CNN is the MOST slanted, progore, supposedly non partisan newsperson out there.

To: Neocon who wrote (84722)	11/22/2000 9:37:21 AM
From: The Street	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

cnn.com Networks seek to explain Florida miscalculation November 21, 2000 Web posted at: 9:43 p.m. EST (0243 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Less than two hours after declaring on election night that Democrat Al Gore had won Florida's 25 electoral votes, CBS News discovered that "exit poll precincts in the Tampa area had overstated Gore's lead" and that the "tabulated vote in Duval County was most likely wrong," CBS News President Andrew Heyward has told Congress. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this story: Restrictions on networks considered Uniform poll closing time sought -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heyward's letter to Congress, dated November 17, was made public Tuesday by Rep. Billy Tauzin (R- Louisiana), who chairs the House Telecommunications subcommittee. The subcommittee is scheduled to hold hearings early next year into the erroneous calls the networks made in reporting returns from the November 7 presidential election. Half an hour after discovering the problems in Tampa and Duval County, shortly before 10 p.m. EDT, CBS retracted its call that Gore had won Florida and said the contest was too close to call. The networks' problems were compounded. "Still later that night," Heyward wrote, "another series of confusions took place -- including what at this juncture appears to be a very significant computer error made by the Volusia County Elections Department -- which led to another series of bad calls by television networks and newspapers across the nation." Those calls included projections that Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, had become the president-elect. "In the days since, the question of who won the state of Florida has yet to be answered to everyone's satisfaction," Heyward wrote. "That we were all too early in projecting a certain outcome is not open to debate." Restrictions on networks considered Tauzin is considering introducing legislation that would clamp down on the news organizations by requiring them to hold off declaring winners of states until the polls have closed. However, a spokesman for Tauzin said the congressman is not trying to keep the networks from making projections. Heyward's letter was the most detailed of several letters Tauzin made public from the correspondence that he received from television networks and The Associated Press -- the companies that run the Voter News Service. VNS is the service that coordinates the news organizations' election data gathering operation. Tauzin has accused the news organizations of dampening voter turnout by making an early and incorrect call in Florida, and thereby discouraging residents from voting in Florida's western panhandle. Tauzin also said the networks' early projections might have discouraged voters in western states from going to the polls. The networks denied their erroneous calls had tilted the election. ABC News President David Westin said the candidates had needed more than Florida's 25 Electoral College votes to win when his network withdrew its projection that Gore had carried the state. "Thus, there was no point during the evening when it was likely or even possible that voters would decide not to vote simply because of the erroneous projection of the presidential race in Florida," Westin wrote. Uniform poll closing time sought "ABC also continues to support uniform poll closing legislation," Westin wrote. His letter included detailed answers to 13 questions raised by Tauzin. "We believe this is a sound means of addressing concerns about projections made before all polls nationwide have closed," Westin wrote. All the networks said they were conducting internal investigations into the false calls, and hoped that the error would not be repeated. CNN has named an independent advisory panel to evaluate both its election night projection procedures and the work of VNS. Joan Konner, dean emerita of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, James V. Risser, a two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Ben J. Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, are on the panel. "Their recommendations will help us determine the appropriate actions to take to ensure that the best and most thoughtful safeguards are adopted by CNN in the future," said CNN News Group Chairman and CEO Tom Johnson.