“As conservative media proliferated, it put a lot more pressure on the hosts to move to the right and embrace warfare politics,” Rosenwald said.
This is a business.”Hemmer said she expects the Electoral College vote will begin to shift the narrative from “the election is undecided" to “the election was stolen.”The difficulty of that transition was evident in coverage of the Electoral College voting.
With Congress meeting Jan. 6 to formally count the Electoral College vote, Kelly said, “the way I read it, we won't have a president-elect until then.”CNN treated it like a second election night, keeping a running tally of Electoral College votes on the screen.
The Electoral College vote led Bret Baier's newscast, which was not a given considering COVID-19 vaccinations began Monday.
Meanwhile, daytime anchor Bill Hemmer's hourlong newscast didn't even mention the Electoral College.