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If it weren’t already the name of a novel and subsequent movie, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” would be a great slogan to paint on a banner, celebrating TV news coverage on election night. Every four years the stakes run high—and the volume runs even higher.
Often tense, sometimes shouty, TV news coverage on the night of a presidential election is a thing of teeth-grinding beauty. Like peanut butter and chocolate, it offers an improbably delicious counterbalance of flavors: tiptoeing caution (“still too close to call”) and lurching, mad speculation (insert your own Dick Morris joke here).