Your choice of election day media coverage:

[marmar]

I'm thinking DU+CSPAN+DemocracyNow!

[NightWatcher]

1. MSNBC to see Patty Boy's head explode

[NC_Nurse]

2. I like to mix it up. I'll be on DU while I surf the channels. I may even turn on

NPR in the background...I'm a glutton for punishment. :-)

Of course, FOX will be on upstairs because that's all my dad will watch (maybe CNBC for a while). I will
have to hide out down here in the basement to escape his ranting and kvetching...oh well.

[leftofthedial]

3. I plan to work, walk in the park, play with my dog, cook

and watch old movies.

I may peek at MSNBC once in awhile.

When I get the news, either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, I plan to get really drunk...either way.

[harun]

9. I really can't stomach any of the pundits. I won't be watching any of them.

If Democracy Now is having coverage I may flip there. I think it is going to be really close so I don't think I will be staying up and waiting.

[TahitiNut]

4. DU is at its worst when everyone 'talks' and nobody 'listens.'

We've become a forum of posters who don't read and who don't engage in civil discussion. In over 6 years, I've never seen so many duplicate threads and "hit and run" (post without discussion) threads. DU is at its worst when it goes to DefCon 1-2-3 ... with almost NO interaction ... sheer Garbage Out. Redundant, superficial, and trivial posts with absolutely no additive community value. Election Night will be, I expect, horrible for any discourse. The bandwidth-wasting 'everyone vomit' mentality is getting more and more depressing, not the least being the 'kick wars' and post-count obsession with flame-bait and nanny-scolding.

So ... I'll focus on MSNBC supplemented by CSPAN and CNN ... with DU and Web news feeds as a supplement. It'll be a virtual waste of time to post into the pile of horse-shit where few are looking for any ponies.

[marmar]

5. That's true......On election nights, or during debates....it's just post after post.....

..... very few with responses.

[TahitiNut]

6. The paradigm of "chat room" has apparently obliterated any 'Usenet' tradition.

As an "old school" Internet user who appreciated the evolution of newsgroups and thoughtful on-line discussion where folks had a fulsome appreciation for bandwidth (using 300 baud modems), I get nostalgic for the "good old days" when the 'on-line community' reveled in the miracle of a technology in which we were all involved. (I was part of an extended workgroup that invented and developed the Ethernet and was a pioneer in relational database technology - two core technologies for today's Internet/Web.) We APPRECIATED the enormity of the 'cyberspace' we'd created and were working to develop. I guess the "Tragedy of the Commons" was inevitable ... but that doesn't make it any less tragic.

[stillcool]

7. and all the good stuff gets buried..

I like the sites that post the returns as they come in. That's usually what I am obsessed with on election night, although I am all over the place afraid I've missed something.

[TahitiNut]

8. "the good stuff gets buried" ... the optimist looking for the pony in the pile of horse manure, huh?

:evilgrin:

That's the allusion I was making. Yes ... I'm another one -- all too frequently having to shower and remove the smell.