TV networks plan to proceed with caution on election night

After various election-night debacles and faux pas in recent years, and not wanting a repeat of the same, television networks have decided to change the way they handle their election night coverage, beginning with next Tuesday's election.

One of the changes has to do with the manner in which exit poll information is reported. According to an article in this morning's Washington Post, "a media consortium is allowing two people from each of the networks and the Associated Press entree to a windowless room in New York. All cellphones, laptops and BlackBerrys will be confiscated. The designated staffers will pore over the exit polls but will not be allowed to communicate with their offices until 5 p.m."

You can read the entire article by going here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103434.html