More So-So Report Cards for National News

In the second TVNewsCheck survey, a cross-section of news directors at TV stations around the country were asked to grade ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FNC, NBC News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America and PBS NewsHour on "overall journalistic quality." Once again, none received an A, four earned Bs, there was one C and three Ds. The findings also indicate a correlation between those grades and how the news directors perceive the organizations’ objectivity.