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The PBS News Hour is the only real news program left.

• jacobolus 16y ago
  That’s been the case for 20 years. There has never been enough quality reporting to fill a 24-hour news channel, and so the time is naturally filled with easy garbage like popular scandals and blathering pundits many with undeclared agendas.
  • johnny22 16y ago
    and most people don't watch it all day in any case. The stories must be repeated during the times you have various surges in viewers (6am-9am), (3-6pm), etc..
  • colanderman 16y ago
    My local NPR station does a good job filling up 24 hours. There are some repeats of course but very little of it is the crap you'd find on CNN.
    • jacobolus 16y ago
      NPR doesn’t need footage, their programming is more than half something-other-than-news, they repeat programs a few times, and most importantly they’re funded by subscription and grants, rather than by advertising dollars driven by ratings. They do substantially better work than CNN, but they’re not really analogous.