Not o kill joy the collective mood - but the result of low ratings has little to do with the conservatives striking back and Nightline or This Week - butthe fact that the ABC network's weak ratings of its lead ins. David Letterman also suffered from this at CBS - also - Disney which owns ABC is not promotingthe hsow to its affiliates - Disney wants to scrap Nightline and go for a its own late night talk show. Lastly, network ratinsg -while still far larger than cable TV are slipping all the time do to competing mediums like the internet and video games. All the networks want to get out of the news business - news broadcasts being something they had to have during regulation but no longer required.
The demise of biased network news programs is welcomed for any reason. It is true that network news in general may be going the way of the manual typewriter. I hope that whatever replaces it will serve the American people more honorably and truthfully.
I care not for the reasons,
just the results.