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The Gist

Calling It: Steve Kornacki and Brian Stelter

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, we're launching a week-long focus on election night and how different news organizations handle making the winning calls. In the interviews, Mike talks with NBC News' national political correspondent Steve Kornacki about his network's decision desk, their processes in tabulation, and how they will be closely monitoring the votes coming in days after Tuesday, November 3. Kornacki is the author of The Red and the Blue. Then, Mike speaks with CNN's Brian Stelter about CNN's plan for coverage, and the outsized role that Fox News represents and his predictions for their election day narrative. Stelter is the author of Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following program may contain explicit language.

0:25.0

It's Monday, October 19, 2020 from Slate, it's the Giestime Mike Pesca.

0:34.0

And if you're listening to this today, October 19 through this week or any day,

0:38.0

this month, they're the first two of the next month.

0:41.0

We don't know, but it could be quite similar to if you were listening to a radio show

0:46.0

about the New Orleans levees right for Katrina, or if you were a villager or employee in Chernobyl,

0:53.0

eyeing the RBMK-1000 reactor in early April 1986, or maybe if you were a resident of New Jersey in May of 1937,

1:05.0

vaguely aware that the Hindenburg had left Frankfurt on the third and was due to land on the sixth right there in your state.

1:12.0

Because this program and the next few are about our election night, and whether to even call it that.

1:20.0

The American electoral system, a disaster waiting to happen, maybe that's too dramatic, or maybe that's too hysterical.

1:26.0

But in order to render that judgment on November 4 or 5, attention must be paid now.

1:31.0

Then we will have the luxury of treating the possibility of a breakdown as something,

1:37.0

oh, we were all worried about how quaint is opposed to something we didn't pay sufficient attention to, how dire.

1:43.0

This week we're doing a series of shows, and we're calling it, calling it.

1:48.0

The media challenges of getting election night right.

1:52.0

So right that it's no longer seen as a night, and not a night with the power to declare a winner, dispositively.

2:00.0

We know the election system in America is antiquated and inconsistent, we know it's rickety and vulnerable.

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