Not Breaking News: U.S. cablenets stay with taped programs rather than go LIVE from Paris as official results of 2012 French Presidential election are announced; watch election commentary LIVE from Paris at France24 or BFMTV
Final Ipsos poll via France24 at 8 p.m. in Paris: François Hollande 51.9 %, Nicolas Sarkozy 48.1%.
France24: Overall, 20.1 percent of French voters abstained from casting their ballots.
BFMTV says it was 81% participation.
Here's what the U.S. cable networks ran instead:
CNN - The Next List
MSNBC - Meet the Press (encore of NBC's telecast), which featured Tom Brokaw raising the complaint of voters that U.S. reporters are more than a bit full of themselves, and, that their being so keen on reporting on what George Clooney thinks at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, rather than DO THEIR JOBS, is one of the reasons.
Yes, the thin wall between serious news and Entertainment Tonight
Fox News Channel - Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (encore telecast)
Yes, with all the technology available to them, this is what we get from the Mainstream Media: nothing. C'est la vie!
You can watch the heated commentary LIVE in English via http://www.france24.com/en/aef_player_popup/france24_player#
Sarkozy gave a very classy concession speech but at the beginning of it, one of the female reporters from France24 in Tulle, where Hollande supporters were celebrating, kept talking over Sarkozy for a bit before they killed her microphone.
Hollande has still not spoken as of 3:15 Eastern U.S.
Final Ipsos poll via France24 at 8 p.m. in Paris: François Hollande 51.9 %, Nicolas Sarkozy 48.1%.
France24: Overall, 20.1 percent of French voters abstained from casting their ballots.
BFMTV says it was 81% participation.
Here's what the U.S. cable networks ran instead:
CNN - The Next List
MSNBC - Meet the Press (encore of NBC's telecast), which featured Tom Brokaw raising the complaint of voters that U.S. reporters are more than a bit full of themselves, and, that their being so keen on reporting on what George Clooney thinks at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, rather than DO THEIR JOBS, is one of the reasons.
Yes, the thin wall between serious news and Entertainment Tonight
Fox News Channel - Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (encore telecast)
Yes, with all the technology available to them, this is what we get from the Mainstream Media: nothing. C'est la vie!
You can watch the heated commentary LIVE in English via http://www.france24.com/en/aef_player_popup/france24_player#
Once you click the arrow, it'll work, but there's so much demand on the line now that every few minutes it slows down and requires refreshing, just like the LIVE blog.
Click the blue link in the bottom left marked Watch : FRANCE 24 live : SPECIAL
Or you can watch it in French via BFMTV at http://www.bfmtv.com/direct
Already, less than an hour after the official results were announced, many of the Socialist members who have appeared on TV are talking about the victory as something much larger than it is, esp, considering since it was not a legislative election.
(Those elections are next month.)
They sort of remind me of many of the young female thirty-something Democratic/GOP consultants we see too much of on TV in the U.S. all the time, who you'd really like to know what they've ever actually accomplished besides getting the attention of the show's male producers, because the facts don't seem to ever get in the way of what they say.
As becomes obvious when you listen.
As becomes obvious when you listen.
Meanwhile, the Front National Le Pen supporters are crowing that they are the ones who really are responsible for Sarkozy's defeat and angling for more respect,
Hollande has still not spoken as of 3:15 Eastern U.S.
