Gleaned from The Reconstruction of American Journalism, mentioned in previous post.
Morning Edition (NPR) has an audience about one-third larger than the Today show.
Public radio has about 28 million listeners each week; public television about 75 million viewers.
A 1999 study of 59 local TV station newscasts “found that 90 percent of all their stories reported on accidents, crimes, and scheduled or staged events.” Anyone think local TV news has improved since then?
205 TV stations around the country have their news produced by another local TV station.