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Did Comedy Central scoop the Rumsfeld resignation?
This blog entry on the Comedy Central “Indecider” election blog, purportedly from 12:15 Wednesday morning, seems to scoop the Rumsfeld resignation story by, oh, about 12 hours. From the blog: “The buzz I’m hearing from a friend, and a totally unconfirmed White House source (remember Comedy Central doesn’t have journalistic standards), is that Rumsfeld will be out of the administration tomorrow. This is a shocker even to the totally unnamed source in the White House. Already, we are seeing reports of a White House Press conference scheduled for tomorrow at 1 p.m. Could this be it?… Suck it, Drudge!” Indecider recaps the timeline today: “LIKE, 1 MINUTE AFTER CNN ANNOUNCED RUMSFELD’S RESIGNATION: We pee our pants.” And Gawker takes note: “Nice work, media! You got scooped by the folks who write web promos for Mind of Mencia!” (Thanks, LR Tipster Shirley!)
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YouTube traffic flattening?
Oh, this is interesting.
If you go by Alexa, it seems like YouTube’s traffic started flattening out right around October 9th… the day that Google dropped the big dime.
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Blogs ‘national clearinghouse’ of voting problems
From the NYT: “Blogs of all political stripes spent most of yesterday detailing reports of voting machine malfunctions and ballot shortages, effectively becoming an online national clearinghouse of the polling problems that still face the election system. And in a new twist this year, many bloggers buttressed their accounts of electoral shenanigans with links to videos posted on the video Web site YouTube.” (Free sub. req.)
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Rumsfeld resignation, Gates nomination: web resources
The AP broke it: Donald Rumsfeld is resigning his job as Secretary of Defense. RESOURCES: Rumsfeld bio from Defenselink, Wikipedia page, Google News archives for Donald Rumsfeld stories, SourceWatch background, Infoplease, BBC News profile, BBC4 video interview from 2003, FRONTLINE documentary page: “Rumsfeld’s War.” Tagged Web for “Donald Rumsfeld”: Technorati, Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us. Robert Gates is the president’s nominee to replace Rumsfeld. Gates info: Wikipedia, bio from Texas A&M site, Washington Speakers Bureau, Answers.com, Oral History: Robert Gates from FRONTLINE “The Gulf War.”
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Election hangovers: what went right, what didn’t?
Let LR be your therapist today. Tell us about your experiences covering the election. We saw all sorts of terrific examples of creative uses of online media (Here’s Poynter’s list). Now it’s time to tell us what worked - and what didn’t work so well. You can post anonymously if you like - for the purposes of this, we’re all about the learning.
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Fox News calls exit polls unreliable
A member of the National Election Pool, Fox News reported in the middle of its coverage last night that the exit poll numbers were unreliable and the cable network was not considering them in its decision desk analysis.
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Welcome to Virginia, legal battleground
It’s 2:30 a.m. ET, and contrary to Stephen Warley’s prediction below, the Democrats are leading in the battle for the Senate with just one state to go (well, technically two right now. Democrat Jon Tester is leading in Montana by a good narrow margin). It all comes down to Virginia, where Sen. George Allen (R) can order a recount if he loses by a margin less than 23,000 votes (right now it’s Jim Webb up by around 11,000 votes). If the margin holds slim, the media storm will descend upon Virginia as hundreds of lawyers watch over a highly-scrutinized recount. Would you expect anything else these days?
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