A Short Election Postscript

Yesterday’s Guardian G2 section was completely black with, in small white letter, the words, “Oh, God.” (Can’t find a picture of it online).
The other footnote was at some very late point in the night when CNN were explaining once again how they “call” a state, and why they hadn’t yet called Ohio. They cut to a shot of their editor in charge of making these decisions who was sat with a collegue in front of a series of computer monitors and was busily scribbling on a legal pad whilst frantically conferring with a colleague. The hand held camera then began to zoom in to show us the complicated jottings on the pad, except that we could read a couple of very clear figures in large letters. Said editor suddenly realised the camera was zooming in on his notes, and he hastily hid them from view. Nothing like being pissed off by your own camera crew.


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