One of the major problems for TV news in covering a national primary for multiple candidates: what color do you assign the candidates? For the Democrats, it’s relatively easy: Obama and Clinton are swapping light and dark blue on the various networks. But in the Republican three-way race, it gets uglier. On CNN, McCain gets [...]

MSNBC has Lester Holt in a large glass cage, which it calls a “virtual newsroom,” where he’s reporting on exit poll results, on a computer-generated screen that’s floating in midair. It’s only a short step from this to animated co-anchors. Would anybody notice the difference with a cartoon Jim Cramer? The network is also calling [...]

As CNN announces its projections in the 8 p.m. contests, all the candidates’ head shots–presumably taken at CNN debates–have the network’s logo in the background. On this channel at least, CNN is the winner in every state.