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 →