This coming weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will
distribute to his staff copies of the testimony
news executives gave to Congress when they
tried to explain how television networks got
2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.
It’s required reading — perhaps never more
than this year. Media planners are preaching
caution in the face of a surge in early voting,
high anxiety levels overall and a president who
raises the specter of another disputed election.
“We need to prepare ourselves for a different
kind of election night,” said Feist, CNN’s
Washington bureau chief, “and the word I keep
using is ‘patience.’”