Romenesko

Mediacrit.com
The breakdown, based on story times from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, of the first full day of evening news coverage for Tim Russert and Peter Jennings: 1 hour, 17 minutes, 20 seconds for the NBC newsman, and 1:01:40 for the ABC anchor. "The results are interesting, given that Jennings had a much longer on-air career, and that he anchored five days a week, compared to Russert's much smaller audiences for a niche Sunday morning program," writes University of Northern Iowa journalism professor Christopher R. Martin.
> "The delirium in the press at Russert's passing has been strange" (Nation)
> It didn't take long for critics to start whining about Russert coverage (TVG)