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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS PAGE 11 STALEMATE 2000 IS THE MEDIA TO BLAME? DuCirUdlDDDu IhiosiGElSKgln Election 2000 Special Clinton wins in N.Y., A I GOP keeps rcim of Senate. A 12 Stale turnout nuy set record, A I Orlando Sentinel Many newspapers throughout country had to eat crow after declaring Bush win Rendu Presidential Orlando Sentinel mi GRAY Continued from Preceding Page As it was, Tuesday's nail-biter made for popular television. National Nielsen ratings weren't expected to be available until today, but based on preliminary estimates and overnight ratings, it looks as if viewership for the ABC, CBS and NBC alone was up anywhere from 16 percent to 26 percent in prime time from 1996, with NBC in the lead. (Locally, WPVI and its network, ABC, dominated the 7-11 p.m. time period.) Yesterday, everyone in the TV news business was trying to keep the momentum going, even as outlets like CNN found themselves saddled with the unwieldy screen "breaking news" headline, "Presidential race too close to call." As of early yesterday afternoon, CNN's Mike Boettcher was in Tallahassee, being, pestered by anchor Natalie Alien for results in the Florida recount, a process that's not supposed to be completed until sometime today.

He promised to try. Later in the afternoon, the first results of the recount were already trickling in, numbers without meaning to the majority of viewers. A few hours later, on CNN's "TalkBack Live," a viewer e-mailed the show: "The media owes the voting public an apology." Think the networks will be a little more careful about rushing to judgment after this? Not likely at least not as long as the rest of us are more interested in a quick score than in the occasionally slow-moving truth. You can reach Ellen Gray by e-mail at elgrayphillynews.com. by fax at 215-854-5852 or by mail at the Philadelphia Daily News, Box 7788, Philadelphia, Pa.

19101. by Mark Angeles Daily News Staff Writer It's been a rough couple of days for Fred Zipp, managing editor of the Austin American Statesman, the hometown Texas newspaper of candidate George W. Bush. Day 1: Had to recall 59,000 newspapers that bore the headline "BUSH!" in nearly 2-inch letters, some of which were being sold to die-hard Bush supporters who remained at a rain-soaked downtown rally rabid for the latest in election news. Day 2: Had to talk to dozens of newspaper reporters from across the country who interviewed Results George W.BuOi AlGorc Ralph Nader Florida puts Rcpublionjyer top, in.

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The New York Post, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle, Charleston Gazette, Raleigh News Observer, St. Petersburg Times and Bush's college newspaper, the Yale Daily News, were among the dozens proclaiming victory for Bush in some of their versions. In Philadelphia, the Daily News went with the accurate "BUSH, MAYBE" for its entire press run. The Inquirer, however, chose "Bush Edges Gore" in its primary edition.

In later editions the headline was changed to "Still No Winner." One edition of the Atlantic City Press read "It's Bush." The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, N.J., went with "Bush Declared Winner" before reverting to "Bush, Gore in Tight Race." Yesterday's events recalled the famous image of President Harry S. Truman in 1948 holding up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune that bears the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." And history repeated itself. The circulation St. Louis Post-Dispatch's final deadline at 1:18 a.m. yesterday came just as television networks and the Democratic National Committee chairman were saying that Bush had become the president-elect.

to keep House value. p4Ls "By the time appropriate staff members were notified of developments, our press run was almost over," the Post-Dispatch's executive editor, Richard K. Weil, said to the paper's Web site. Their banner headline: "Bush Wins A Thriller." If there's a silver lining to yesterday's migraine-inducing developments, it may be found on ebay.com, one of the more popular Internet auction sites. The top price found for a copy of the 25-cent New York Post that declares 'BySHjVTNf S19Q.01, ii, I i mi Send e-mail to imUnHgiuWyiieoi.cuw A sJt" ot hr tlw ir dirtswas li inaivo hL-4un with xxrlnr MMMtn ass A JTTA Hecfioa 2000 JSpectol VIXanClO HUlanlonwiminN.Y.,AlJ fn GOP teqnreins of Senate, AI2 IJJIIllIieJL fm sle turnout may net record, Al I tun I 47,1 hum ti mmno I Florida keeps nation in susoense The early edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer gave the to George Bush.

him about his newspaper's gaffe. "Knowledge that a printed newspaper contains a headline that's obsolete is certainly unpleasant," Zipp said stiffly by phone from the Statesman newsroom. Delivery trucks from the newspaper were called back early yesterday and ordered to dump the faulty versions in a warehouse, at no small cost to the Statesman. But the Statesman was not alone. Dozens of newspapers across tne country printed at least some editions that bag stories and headlines incorrectly inel out out four a narrow race, men canins CS9 News ancnor uan miner reports early election returns.

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