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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Network TV news is still more popular than cable news

    On Monday night, CBS Evening News debuted a new anchor: Norah O’Donnell. She called President Trump’s recent tweets “racist. And she closed her show with a pledge to legendary CBS journalist Edward R.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 16, 2019 • 1 min read

    On Monday night, CBS Evening News debuted a new anchor: Norah O’Donnell. She called President Trump’s recent tweets “racist. And she closed her show with a pledge to legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow.

    Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather helped CBS set the standard for nightly news. But now CBS is in third place in the ratings. So who watches network news these days? You may be surprised to learn that network TV news has three times more viewers than FOX, CNN and MSNBC.

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    With Libra, Facebook wants to create its own money. Lawmakers are skeptical
    1. 0:00Chaos and confusion as immigration officers get trained on new asylum rule
    2. 11:47Culture of crime and corruption within Customs and Border Protection
    3. 21:38Can Facebook launch its cryptocurrency without support of lawmakers?
    4. 30:58Network TV news is still more popular than cable newsYou’re reading this
    5. 42:38Area 51 and the plan to find out what the government knows about aliens
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