In nightly news, little that's really new

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IN NIGHTLY NEWS, LITTLE THAT'S REALLY NEW
[SOURCE: MediaLife, AUTHOR: Toni Fitzgerald]
Network evening news has seemingly gone through tremendous changes in the past several years, beginning with a complete turnover in anchors. If anything, it's a more contentious race, with the three networks, CBS, NBC and ABC, competing for viewers not only with each other but with the all-news cable networks and increasingly the Internet. And yet across all media, the network nightly news shows have changed the least over the past three decades. Many of the stories that dominated evening news shows then still dominate, the formats are largely the same, and the way the news is presented has changed hardly at all. “Network newscasts actually in many ways have been more consistent across the board than any other media in terms of staying with the traditional story approach,” says Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, based in Washington, D.C., which recently completed a study on the state of media. “Cable is more live and extemporaneous. Network news has very much stayed with packages that are produced and edited.” What surprised PEJ researchers is just how much that is so.
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In nightly news, little that's really new