For a little while on Tuesday evening “Election Night with Brian Williams” was the breaking political news equivalent of a meditation app. As CNN's John King and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki poked at states and districts on their respective touchscreen maps, Williams calmly emceed a polite conversation about the election from the center of a gigantic Los Angeles soundstage.
Behind him sprawled a digital backdrop which, from a straight-on camera angle, made him look like his desk was sitting in the middle of a highway dotted with American flags.
