In 1960, the vice president of ABC News quit his job the week after the election to protest the way his station covered the results. The issue? ABC had showed episodes of “Bugs Bunny” during lulls in their election coverage. Pair this tale with the fact that NBC’s election night coverage desk was originally located in Studio 8-H, the current filming location of “Saturday Night Live,” and one has to wonder if election night television coverage wasn’t destined to be a satirical farce from the very beginning.
We don’t have to look far to find examples of media interference influencing the results of presidential elections.
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