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To counter dipping audience figures and falling advertising revenues, TV news increasingly offers a diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes. Who is to blame, a public unwilling to engage with global affairs, or the networks trying to brand news as entertainment?
Writer: Edward Helmore
United States of America
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