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Date Posted: 23:13:34 05/19/02 Sun
Author: gmike
Subject: PBS ANCHOR LEHRER SAYS NETWORK NEWS IS EXPENDABLE; RIPS KOPPEL

PBS ANCHOR LEHRER SAYS NETWORK NEWS IS EXPENDABLE; RIPS KOPPEL
Sun May 19 2002 15:01:39 ET

"Maybe we are moving to a time when the major commercial broadcast networks, CBS and NBC as well as ABC, get out of the news business," PBS NEWSHOUR host Jim Lehrer declared last week. "They go about the business of entertaining and leave informing to others."

Lehrer unleashed and unbuckled during an address at the University of Pennsylvania.

So what if ABC hoped to replace NIGHTLINE with Letterman.

"The fact is, the possible moving of one late night 30-minute television program does not mean the end of television news as we know it," Lehrer told the crowd, according to a story planned for Monday's NEW YORK TIMES.

"With the coming of the two C-Span channels and the cable news channels -- and the growing number of news Web sites... the issue may be only one of transition."

Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9.htm

If they drop the public service they should be a cost to the networks since the broadcasters pay the government for their licenses.

I actually never watch the news on big 3 because it nothing but propaganda and i routing for big 3 to go off the air as well as cnn and msnbc. Internet is really only free control of information for both sides.

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I think network news needs revamped, but should never be replaced (NT) -- Cari, 10:50:22 05/22/02 Wed