Election Special
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We're back with a special, election-themed episode of The Last Archive! While reporting Episode 5: Project X, Jill spoke to Bob Schieffer, famed TV newsman of CBS, about how computers and the Internet changed the way we report on elections, and even the way they turn out. It's been sitting on the shelf here in the last archive for a little while now, but it feels eerily prescient. So, take a listen, take a deep breath, and good luck come November.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.0 | There's a place in our world where the paper ballots go. |
| 0:15.2 | A ballot box somewhere, I hope. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to the Last Archive Special Election Edition. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Jill Lepore. |
| 0:26.0 | How will we know the results of the 2020 election? |
| 0:29.0 | And when? |
| 0:30.0 | Last year on the Last Archive, we did a whole episode about the prediction of election |
| 0:34.2 | results and how all that changed in 1952. |
| 0:38.9 | Turn back the hands of your clock and go listen to that episode. |
| 0:42.2 | It's the fifth one. Project X. |
| 0:45.0 | When I was reporting it, I telephoned the wonderful, delightful Bob Sheifer to ask him about calling elections on election night. |
| 0:52.0 | Sheifer, who's now retired, was for a very ask him about calling elections on election night. |
| 0:53.0 | Sheifer, who's now retired, was for a very long time the host of CBS's |
| 0:56.6 | face the nation. |
| 0:58.4 | The interview didn't really fit in the episode, but it's haunted me ever since. This election season, Twitter's announced that it's going to slow the flow of information. |
| 1:07.0 | Not so fast, people keep saying, about this year's voting. |
| 1:11.0 | So one question keeps nagging me. How did we get so caught up in a |
| 1:15.9 | fetish for speed in the first place? Honestly, what's the hurry? My daughter just always asked me, |
| 1:29.0 | you see, dad, did you want to be a TV reporter |
| 1:31.2 | when you were a little boy, |
| 1:32.1 | and they didn't have TV when I was a little boy. |
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