If you wondered whether declining viewers and corporate belt tightening had a real on-screen resourcing impact on network news coverage, check out Andrew Tyndall on the nets and Gaza:
In the summer of 2006, when the Israel Defense Force headed north to fight with the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon, all three networks found the conflict so newsworthy they dispatched anchors to the region. ABC’s Charles Gibson traveled to Jerusalem; NBC’s Brian Williams to Tel Aviv and Haifa; CBS’ Bob Schieffer in New York shared anchoring chores with Lara Logan in Israel. Continue reading