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.
You could watch the Canadian coverage: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/how-to-follow-2024-us-election-cbc-1.7368364
As a public broadcaster, CBC is less prone to sensationalism than its commercial counterparts (though it is not immune).
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?
You just don’t get the same sense of despair if you don’t watch it live.
It’s also great excuse to drink while wallowing in dread. I have a bottle of gin set aside for the occasion.
None. Nothing you learn will be actionable in any way. Just free anxiety/outrage.
Watch Billy Crystal’s 1998 masterpiece “My Giant” instead. :)
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.
