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“The job and the audience aren’t what they were when John Chancellor, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, and even Peter Jennings walked the earth,” writes Jack Shafer. “The explosion of news choices on cable and the Web have made the evening news an anachronism enjoyed mostly by an audience of older and less highly educated viewers.”
> Couric’s new show expected to be Winfrey-esque sit-down
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