20 random thoughts about Super Tuesday coverage

February 06th, 2008 | Category: News and Gossip

I wouldn’t sign myself a political junkie, though I guess I do get that way every four years. The massive coverage the election gets from the news channels is both way overdone and endlessly fascinating.

Last night I watched the coverage of Super Tuesday. My plan was to try to stick to one station, since they’d have the results eventually, but my isolated trigger finger got itchy and I was surfing all night. Here are a few random thoughts I jotted down.

1. I couldn’t watch CNN, at least not all night.. Those

giant screens and all those graphics. At one point Wolf Blitzer was standing next to a massive lineup of 24 different pie charts, and I think he wanted to just throw his notes down and walk down the street to the nearest bar. John King was doing all these fancy things with his fingers on a screen, and it was tough to follow and kind of glitchy. It was the world’s most insane PowerPoint presentation.

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