Slate’s Jack Shafer offers CBS News a list of recommendations for change. Like I said on CNN Tuesday night, the evening news has to evolve: “If they continue to play by the current set of evening news rules, they’re destined to to lose,” Shafer writes. “Unless they want future news archaeologists to find them frozen alive in pack ice, they need to stop thinking about who is going to be their next anchor and start changing the news environment. Without subscribing to his news values, they need to ask themselves, What would Rupert Murdoch do?” That’s the ending; check out the rest.
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