A great story from the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Johnson: “Over the past seven months all of the ‘Big Three’ anchors have vacated the posts they held for two decades, leaving either by resignation or, in the case of ABC’s Peter Jennings, medical necessity.
And yet the sky remains in place: The newscasts are, still, the most polished daily news summaries on television, and the viewers remain, for the most part, in their easy chairs. During the monthlong May sweeps a year ago, 24.7 million people on average watched the three evening newscasts. This May, 23.4 million watched.”
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