His Charisma score is at least 20!

by Peter Merchlewitz

In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past 24 hours, a rather historical event occurred last night, and many people are saying that Barack Obama's acceptance speech last night was one of the best that the American people have heard in a long time. Not to mention that he's one damn fine speaker in his own right.

Perhaps Obama's strongest point within the speech was his referral to a 106-year-old, Ann Nixon Cooper. Using the woman from Atlanta life as a metaphor to show how much America has gone through in at least 100 years brings a glimmer of hope, knowing that we've gone through two World Wars, woman's rights, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, placed a man on the moon, and of course, segregation.

During Obama's acceptance speech last night, I couldn't help but notice that my entire fraternity house was dead silent, save the many TVs tuned into CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. And while I was sitting there, watching Obama use his gift of the gab, I realized that since all the TVs each had their own delay of sound, it gave the emulation of hearing the speech live at Grand Park in Chicago, giving it a feel of Martin Luther's "I Have A Dream" speech, or JFK's "City on a Hill" speeche.

Truly, there was history made last night.

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CNN wins

By: Callie McBroom

CNN had the most viewers watching election coverage on cable Tuesday night. In fact, only ABC beat CNN's numbers during prime time last night. ABC had 13,135,000 total prime time viewers compared to 12,292,000 for CNN.

"This was CNN's highest-ever viewership in prime time," according to TVNEWSER. And, the cable channel beat out network channels NBC, CBS and FOX.

Prior to the election, Brian Stelter for The New York Times pointed out CNN's countdown to poll closing time that started days ahead of the election. This was all in an effort to stay ahead of their competition. Mainly refering to FOX and MSNBC.

Stelter is also calling the 2008 election "a cable news election" because the big network broadcasters are slowing dying, and cable tv is changing the way elections are covered.

"TV ratings for Presidential election nights have shown an upward trend over the last 44 years," according to TV by the Numbers. This and the high ratings already during the debates and the national conventions coverage, lay the foundation for record tv ratings for this year's election.

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Michelle Obama claimed best-dressed

By: Kayla Miller

Journalists nowadays are focusing more and more on fashion. At first, it was Sarah Palin's rimless, designer glasses. Now, it is focused on what Michelle Obama is wearing.

Obama is claimed to be one of the the best-dressed woman there is. For the second year in a row, she has made the Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List. It is claimed that her best dress was the purple one she wore last month, according to Fine Collins in the article found at MSNBC.com.

The question is though, do people really care what kind of dress Obama is wearing? If I was to answer the question, it would be no. The gossip on what celebrities are wearing does not matter to me.

To me, writing about this and showing viewers what celebrities wear is just something journalists are using to fill in gaps. To get more stories they just write about the obvious. Yes, I know Palin wears glasses, and yes Obama may have a nice dress, but it isn't worth publishing.

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