ABC News chief on covering 2020 Election Day: 'Our audience is counting on us to get this right'
On election night in 2000, voters were told the crucial state of Florida had gone to one candidate. Then, they were told it actually went to another. Then again, they were told it was in fact too close to call.
Today, amid unprecedented concerns about reporting the election results in a timely manner, broadcast news networks are bracing for an extended period of uncertainty and trying to set expectations accordingly -- both for audiences and within their own offices.
"We have to get election night right," James Goldston, president of ABC News, said in an interview with ABC's daily podcast "Start Here." "On the flip side of that, I think what the audience has to expect on that night... I would use two words: uncertainty and patience."
--ABC News' Brad Mielke