But CBS Newscast Is Sometimes “Hardest”

“I think certainly that CBS made a mistake on leading with shopping when the other two broadcasts led with the senator’s health. And they seemed to be scrambling to get it on when they did… third in their lineup,” an e-mailer writes in response to this post. “But the two previous nights, CBS was by far the hardest of the three newscasts, including on Monday when they aired a report from Elizabeth Palmer in Tehran on the views of Iranian Jews at the time a Holocaust denial conference was going on in their backyard. I believe ABC was doing shopping for high tech presents at the same time.

Now here’s my question: Why aren’t critics commenting on her having the hardest broadcast when she does? There seems to be an incredibly unfair standard here…”