NDs: We Could Do Better At Investigative
In part II of a TVNewsCheck survey, news directors come across as an optimistic lot with positive attitudes about the business and their bosses. But more than 80% concede they do an “average” or “poor” job at investigative journalism and only 38.5% expect to see more of it in the next three-to-five years. The news directors voted Hearst Television the prize for “best overall news” based on reputation alone while Sinclair took the “booby prize.”
Local NDs Give So-So Marks To Nat’l TV News
In a TVNewsCheck survey, a cross-section of news directors at TV stations around the country were asked to grade ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FNC, NBC News and MSNBC on “overall journalistic quality.” None received an A, four earned Bs and, as for Fox News Channel and MSNBC, they may have to stay after class.
