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How are you watching the Midterms?

How are you watching the Midterms?

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I'm watching PBS.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I'm going to check the thread titles on debatepolitics in about three hours.
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That is actually not a terrible idea. :mrgreen: Every now and then, DP will be the first place I learn about a major breaking news story!
 
I have a lot of Mexican jumping beans all over the place. As of now 204 of them are still on the table.
 
I have CNN on in the background right now.

Last night, I was at a midterms party, and the hosts had different cable news channels on the various screens around their home.

Election returns are the sorts of things about which I want to be informed, but I don't need minute-by-minute updates or commentary about them, for both will be readily available from myriad sources and there's no urgency associated with my obtaining that info and analysis.
 
Question:
  • What are examples of the "other media" from on which folks are "watching the midterms?" CSPAN?
 
Xelor said:
Question:
  • What are examples of the "other media" from on which folks are "watching the midterms?" CSPAN?
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The Young Turks.

Although I also was checking on the various results myself via the NYTimes website.

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Actually my supervisor had MSNBC's election coverage playing while I was at work, but I wasn't paying attention all the time.
 
The Mark said:
The Young Turks.

Although I also was checking on the various results myself via the NYTimes website.

Edit:
Actually my supervisor had MSNBC's election coverage playing while I was at work, but I wasn't paying attention all the time.
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Red:
TY for the example.

Is TYT not an Internet streaming platform that delivers news/information? That's what it looks like to me.


Blue:
Well, not paying attention all the time seems normal to me, especially if all one mainly cares about are topline results and who won "this or that" specific race, there's no need to pay attention all the time.

I was at a midterms party for the election, and though there were TVs on all over the hosts' home (closed captioning on; sound muted), I and most other folks (~40 people) merely glanced at them from time to time, though there were about a dozen folks -- all political consultants -- who "parked" themselves before a television and engaged in continuous banter about the election, its implications, the impacts and relevance (policy and/or political) of "this and that" race, why "so and so" won/lost, what "so and so" should/shouldn't have done/said, "this and that" factor in XYZ locality, etc.

That's fine for them; I'm sure amidst the highballs, they had a ball insofar as they were having what amounted to inter-firm work-related conversations in a non-work setting. For me, theirs was politics conversation way out of both my depth and level of interest. That said, I enjoyed "eavesdropping" on snippets of their chatter and discussing other things with other guests.
 
Xelor said:
Red:
TY for the example.

Is TYT not an Internet streaming platform that delivers news/information? That's what it looks like to me.


Blue:
Well, not paying attention all the time seems normal to me, especially if all one mainly cares about are topline results and who won "this or that" specific race, there's no need to pay attention all the time.

I was at a midterms party for the election, and though there were TVs on all over the hosts' home (closed captioning on; sound muted), I and most other folks (~40 people) merely glanced at them from time to time, though there were about a dozen folks -- all political consultants -- who "parked" themselves before a television and engaged in continuous banter about the election, its implications, the impacts and relevance (policy and/or political) of "this and that" race, why "so and so" won/lost, what "so and so" should/shouldn't have done/said, "this and that" factor in XYZ locality, etc.

That's fine for them; I'm sure amidst the highballs, they had a ball insofar as they were having what amounted to inter-firm work-related conversations in a non-work setting. For me, theirs was politics conversation way out of both my depth and level of interest. That said, I enjoyed "eavesdropping" on snippets of their chatter and discussing other things with other guests.
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So far as I know TYT is the biggest streaming news organization.
That is indeed their site.
Some of their content is available for free when they stream it, on Youtube, Facebook.
They upload various stories they do on their live stream to the various social media sites, and their own site.
Additionally if you pay for a membership to their site, you get access to additional content and hosted uploads of past shows.

Stuff like interviews of various people, and member-only content.

I think they have a partnership of some kind with YouTubeTV, I think it also streams some of TYT's content, and a couple of their hosts have shows mostly exclusive to that platform, as well.


They are explicitly not neutral, they consider themselves a progressive show (indeed, they call themselves "the home of progressives") and while they seem to be objective, that is not neutral at ALL.
 
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The Mark said:
So far as I know TYT is the biggest streaming news organization.
That is indeed their site.
Some of their content is available for free when they stream it, on Youtube, Facebook.
They upload various stories they do on their live stream to the various social media sites, and their own site.
Additionally if you pay for a membership to their site, you get access to additional content and hosted uploads of past shows.

Stuff like interviews of various people, and member-only content.

I think they have a partnership of some kind with YouTubeTV, I think it also streams some of TYT's content, and a couple of their hosts have shows mostly exclusive to that platform, as well.


They are explicitly not neutral, they consider themselves a progressive show (indeed, they call themselves "the home of progressives") and while they seem to be objective, that is not neutral at ALL.
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Red:
Yes, but the reason for my earlier inquiry -- "What are examples of the "other media" from on which folks are 'watching the midterms?' CSPAN?'" -- is to obtain an understanding of what be, in the poll's answer options, an example of something qualifying for the "Other" classification. "Streaming platforms" are among the answer options the poll specifically offers, so TYT, being one, qualifies as such rather than as "Other."

I half-expected the OP-er (or someone authorized to speak for him/her) say "any cable news outlet not specifically noted in the poll options." CSPAN, BBC/BBC America, Al Jazeera, Comedy Central, and so on are some examples that struck me as plausible, though I don't know whether any of them, other than CSPAN perhaps, had live coverage of the election results.
 
Xelor said:
Red:
Yes, but the reason for my earlier inquiry -- "What are examples of the "other media" from on which folks are 'watching the midterms?' CSPAN?'" -- is to obtain an understanding of what be, in the poll's answer options, an example of something qualifying for the "Other" classification. "Streaming platforms" are among the answer options the poll specifically offers, so TYT, being one, qualifies as such rather than as "Other."

I half-expected the OP-er (or someone authorized to speak for him/her) say "any cable news outlet not specifically noted in the poll options." CSPAN, BBC/BBC America, Al Jazeera, Comedy Central, and so on are some examples that struck me as plausible, though I don't know whether any of them, other than CSPAN perhaps, had live coverage of the election results.
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Huh, I somehow skipped over the streaming platform option and chose other.

Although frankly if I had made the poll TYT would have their own catagory.
 
The Mark said:
Huh, I somehow skipped over the streaming platform option and chose other.

Although frankly if I had made the poll TYT would have their own catagory.
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Red:
Okay...understood.
 
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