The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Hurricane Sandy Media Coverage Competes With Final Week Of 2012 Election

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Hurricane Sandy Media Coverage Competes With Final Week Of 2012 Election Oct 28th 2012, 22:13 NEW YORK -- On Monday, CNN plans to kick off its end-of-the-election series, "The Final Battlegrounds," with over two-dozen correspondents dispatched across eight pivotal states for the 2012 campaign's eight remaining days. But CNN executives, who have long been preparing for the election's final frenzied days, are now grappling with simultaneously covering Hurricane Sandy -- a powerful storm that could cause havoc on the East Coast and disrupt campaigns' plans going into the home stretch -- and the final week of the election. "CNN will be in position to sustain live coverage of the storm 24 hours a day and we will maintain our reporting in the battleground states that aren't immediately affected by the storm," said CNN senior vice president of programming Bart Feder, in a statement to The Huffington Post. "But clearly the storm will be the priority for at least 36 hours." Read More... More on NBC

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