[TomGuy]

“It’s 22 minutes of reading news; how hard can it be?” scoffs a producer at another network.

Ouch!

What’s hard, of course, is getting the audience at home to prefer the way you read the 22 minutes of news to the way Charlie Gibson at ABC and Brian Williams at NBC do it.

I haven't watched the network news in over 3 years, and I haven't missed a thing. They - Couric, Gibson, Williams - delude themselves with their own self-importance, if they think people have to watch them to know what's going on in the world.

Thanks to cable news and the Internet, we don't really need them to filter and interpret the news for us any more. Amazingly, we can get the unfiltered raw news and interpret it for ourselves.

[Astronaut]

Agreed. Who cares who CBS pays to read the telepromter? I haven't watched a network newscast in more than 15 years. I get my news without a liberal bias from several internet sites. The evening newscast is a quaint anachronism from a bygone era. The internet generation has no use for it.

[MizSterious]

No kidding. Only time I watch is when I'm watching for weather alerts--and even then, I don't watch, I just listen for the alerts. Whether Katie wears slacks or sack-cloth, or whether she even shows up for work at all--who cares.

[Ghengis]

I haven't watched the network news in over 3 years, and I haven't missed a thing...

I didn't watch the evening news with any regularity since David Brinkley and John Chancellor gave up their co-anchoring in 1979. IMO, they the last news anchors worthy of attention until Brit Hume.