Okay, hot take.

Cable news is bad for your brain.

They got a filled 24 hours a day and we found out the hard way what that means when you've

got a president who says reckless stuff just about 24 hours a day.

But something strange has been happening in the past few days on the American Cable

news networks.

They have been cutting away from the guy who lies.

We're going to talk about the significance of that on today's show, but we're going

to start with a look at how they handled election week because if you were watching as our

guest Eric Wemple from the Washington Post was it wasn't possible to miss just how

much power the cable news networks have over our democracy.

Well, they certainly have power over our emotions.

I stand by.

We have a key race alert right now.

New numbers have just come in.

That's where we begin with the CNN key race alert key race alert.

You may be exaggerating just a little bit because of course they're not county boards of elections.

But since the county boards of elections are so slow in county and certifying votes, the

networks historically have stepped in to make these calls on races once they feel they

have sufficient data.

It's official now NBC projects Florida goes to president Donald Trump.

And they spend months and months and months modeling turnout and results for swing states.

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