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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.

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 21 points 7 months 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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sign up for Sling Blue and you can watch MSNBC and CNN.

https://www.sling.com/pm/homepage

Steve Kornacki, the MSNBC data guy, is pretty freaking stellar.

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad at least one person decided to answer the question OP asked.

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months 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.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 13 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

Watch Billy Crystal's 1998 masterpiece "My Giant" instead. :)

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Plug for "America's Sweethearts" also starring Billy Crystal as well.

[–] Viper3210@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months 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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 8 months 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.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago
[–] solrize@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Save your mind. Just look at the newspaper the next day.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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).