# What national network will give be the best, least partisan coverage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125 "2012-11-06T18:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/1 "2012-11-06T18:51:58Z")
Straight forward question. Fox and MSNBC are the same network, just at opposite ends of the spectrum. I’d like to watch the election results from someone middle of the road. Any ideas?? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/2 "2012-11-06T18:52:50Z")
You local public television station or, if you can, the BBC. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/3 "2012-11-06T18:54:58Z")
Second PBS. NPR for radio. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/4 "2012-11-06T18:56:34Z")
PBS or CNN. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/5 "2012-11-06T18:56:43Z")
PBS, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC… those should all be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/6 "2012-11-06T19:00:21Z")
I enjoy watching CNN because John King usually has cool map technology and geeks out over it. I think CNN does pretty well at staying non-partisan. They will probably have a balanced panel of partisan idiots saying much about nothing, while accurately showing and dissecting whatever results are in. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/7 "2012-11-06T19:05:35Z")
I like Brian Williams and NBC, but to each their own. ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/8 "2012-11-06T19:08:01Z")
Colbert and Stewart are going to be live-streaming results, I’d say they should be smacking everyone within reach, D or R. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/9 "2012-11-06T19:12:32Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > Colbert and Stewart are going to be live-streaming results, I’d say they should be smacking everyone within reach, D or R. I don’t know how non-partisan they’ll be, but they’re going to be reporting the same numbers (more or less) as all the other sources, and with more humor (at least, more \*intentional \*humor), so that’s where I plan to be watching… ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/10 "2012-11-06T19:13:20Z")
PBS then Comedy Central - which says a lot about American broadcast networks. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-national-network-will-give-be-the-best-least-partisan-coverage/640125/11 "2012-11-06T19:28:30Z")
I’m watching on Comedy Central tonight…not because it’s non-partisan…they’re heavily liberal, of course, but because it will actually make it entertaining, rather than just fanning the flames of my nervousness.