Our family is planning to watch the election coverage together on Tuesday night. What do you recommend we watch? We’d like some good quality national coverage without getting bombarded by red politics. We don’t have cable TV, so are limited to streaming services.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    This just sounds stressful.

    Why not make batch of mulled wine, watch a film, wake up and check Reuters on Wednesday?

    The outcome won’t differ. What does election coverage offer that is insightful and useful?

  • callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    None. First of all, watching news is far worse then reading it in terms of how you guard against subjective influence.

    Second, who cares. It’s exhausting. It’s toxic. What happens will happen and we’ll see the news later. I think last time it even took a couple days.

    I’ll probably see the result without effort the next day, say “huh,” and go on with my life.

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    13 days ago

    There are gonna be so many lawsuits this election we won’t know the outcome till Jan 7

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        13 days ago

        Yes, thanks!

        Of course we’re not going to know the answer until January 7, but we’re staying up on Tuesday for the journey, not the destination.

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    If you really need/want to, use foreign coverage of it. Maybe BBC or other English world wide news will have something (DW, 24France).

    You will get mostly unbiased info and it is usually more chill than the heated debates. I use this sometimes but for my country it doesn’t cover much news.

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    13 days ago

    None. Nothing you learn will be actionable in any way. Just free anxiety/outrage.

    Watch Billy Crystal’s 1998 masterpiece “My Giant” instead. :)

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    13 days ago

    PBS has excellent live coverage. It might be free on YouTube but you can access all of PBS’s videos stuff by donating to them. It’s a bit of an odd process because you donate to your local PBS but their streaming service is consolidated.

    NPR also has good coverage if you want to play a board game or something while still following the insanity.

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    13 days ago

    I’m going to have to agree with everyone here, we won’t know anything Tuesday night and more than likely won’t know anything for a week or more.

    Pennsylvania is essential to both parties and they have an absolutely absurd law that prevents them from counting mailed ballots until election night so that state won’t have results for quite some time. Tie that into the thousands of lawsuits the GOP is ready to file and the whole first half of November is going to be irritating.