Katrina: Stories No Longer Need Network Airtime To Be “Important”

Phil Rosenthal: “Perhaps it’s unfair to say that if Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw were still at their posts — forces to be reckoned with, both on the air and off — there would be more hours devoted to Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath on ABC, CBS and NBC.

What’s indisputable is they’re gone, and so, too, it seems, is the idea that major news demands major network airtime to convey its magnitude.”