Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140207:14:31:00
Television networks. no exit polling. there was no high-profile campaign coverage, really beyond the conventions themselves, and then along came marty. at cbs, he built the first political reporting unit of any network. he's the guy actually that coined the phrase too close to call. he literally changed the way networks cover conventions. officially, he covered presidential politics for cbs news from the year after president kennedy's death until president clinton's big win in 1996. after he retired from cbs, marty debated and discussed political reporting and the role of the media in calling ...