> But if they're moving away from commentary (progressive or otherwise), how are they going to fill their schedule with "hard news" while also not over-hyping?

> But if they're moving away from commentary (progressive or otherwise), how are they going to fill their schedule with "hard news" while also not over-hyping? Lack of real news is the whole reason they started over-hyping and also why they pad out their schedule with commentary. Yeah. IMHO, one of the major contributing factors to America's problems is there's too little news, and too much time and space to cover it. If they're not going to fill the time with news, they'll probably just fill it with obsessive coverage of scandalous crimes (which will, in some cases, probably create conditions for more scandalous crimes by giving people ideas). Though I suppose there's a third option that might work, but it's not news: documentaries. Air stuff that's not news, but has some newsworthy aspect (e.g. Vladimir Putin's political career, the Russian military).