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TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 09:05 PM Mar 2016

Integrity in reporting...

Utah local television news station, KUTV2, just reported actual delegate numbers in their evening news coverage of the Democratic national primary race. You could've knocked me over with a feather...

1243 ~ Hillary Clinton
975 ~ Bernie Sanders
__________

268 = Current, actual difference figure between the two candidates.

So refreshing!... and no need for a fleeting, barely readable, micro-print, onscreen disclaimer about how superdelegates might be artificially inflating their numbers.

I'm hopeful that this kind of honesty will become a trend, going forward and into the convention.

TYY

Enough.Is.Enough.
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Integrity in reporting... (Original Post) TeeYiYi Mar 2016 OP
what a pleasant change! amborin Mar 2016 #1
It really did catch me by surprise... TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #2
Let me check my own story nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #3

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
2. It really did catch me by surprise...
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 10:38 PM
Mar 2016

...since the CBS Evening News had just reported numbers that included superdelegates, with no audible mention and only a tiny visual footnote.

Actually, I was surprised that CBS had even bothered to include a footnote at all.

Hopefully, the mainstream media is reevaluating their stance on how to report superdelegates, going forward.

TYY

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. Let me check my own story
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 10:40 PM
Mar 2016

since the numbers were SLIGHTLY different yesterday (accounted for not all delegates assigned yet)

But we have been only doing PDs, to the irritation of many local HRC supporters, One took me to task, well until I told her to take it with DWS..

Yup numbers did slightly change.

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