Biden wins, but Trump—and division—aren’t going away

blog post from Columbia Journalism Review

CNN’s election-count coverage ended as it began: with Wolf Blitzer all excited. “After four long, tense days, we’ve reached a historic moment in this election,” he said. “We can now project the winner of the presidential race.” One thrumming musical interlude later, the network reported that Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (the full name treatment, so it must be serious) had taken Pennsylvania, and thus Pennsylvania Avenue. It was 11:24am Eastern on Saturday. Within four minutes, NBC, CBS, ABC, and the...

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