News Hits pretty much gave up watching local TV news long ago. With so much emphasis on mayhem and fluff, tuning in to the nightly broadcasts seemed increasingly pointless.
Turns out we weren�t missing much. Or, put another way, viewers who do rely on the nightly news programs from local stations are missing out on way too much political coverage.
That�s the lesson to be gleaned from a study just conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison�s NewsLab, which looked at the nightly news broadcasts of stations located in nine leading Midwestern markets, including Detroit.