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TV News Coverage Focuses On Quake/Tsunami

  • Time, Friday, March 11, 2011 2:15 PM
Time's James Poniewozik turned on the TV early this morning to find most news and broadcast networks, along with The Weather Channel, "wall-to-wall in coverage" of the Japanese earthquake and the Pacific tsunami.

"One puzzling exception" -- at least before 9:15 a.m. EST, when he posted the story -- was MSNBC, which aired its regular morning programs.

Poniewozik also wonders how U.S. news shows -- many of which have "gutted overseas bureaus, including those in Asia" -- can cover the story in any depth.

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