Author: Becca King

CBS Goes a Step Further with Coverage of Tight Senate Race

This year, Democrats are close to retaking the Senate. One network’s coverage of the Senate race has gone a step further than the other two. On Oct. 26, CBS aired a nearly two-minute story on the Indiana Senate race. The piece followed Democrat and former senator Evan...

Networks Divided on How to Fact Check

The Sept. 26 presidential debate demanded fact checking. It was unclear what the next day’s broadcasts would do. NBC responded with fifty-five seconds of fact checking inside another story. CBS had a whole story devoted to it. ABC avoided fact checking altogether. NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed...

Are the Issues Getting Lost?

“Now let’s clear the smoke,” said CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley. What he really meant was, let’s take a break from the attacks bouncing between campaigns, and let’s talk issues. Pelley used this line to lead into a section of CBS’s newscast that stood out...