What are the five most prestigious and credible television news

[Lautremont]

programs out there? I should add venerable and serious-minded.

I'm curious, as I don't watch much TV, and couldn't even tell you, for example, if 60 minutes is a good show or a half-notch above Hard Copy.

[AX10]

1. Newshour with Jim Leher is good.

[robinlynne]

2. NOW, albeit tiny now at only 25 minutes is good.

I like frontline also on PBS.
but they aren't really news shows. they are "analyzing news shows".
the only news I watch is BBC.

[Mountainman]

3. I can't think of any. I stopped watching news after 2000.

I grew up with Cronkite, Morrow, "Good night Chet,good night David" real news.

[kaygore]

4. The Daily Show

I am serious! Research shows tat those who watch The Daily Show are the best informed.

After that, I agree with Now on PBS.

Then The Colbert Show.

[leftchick]

5. CNN International about 75% of the time

same BBC Bews.

[pinto]

6. Agree. And the basic CNN line-up has an hour CNNI feed

every weekday, 9AM Pacific. It's a good hours catch for professional TV journalism.

[bahrbearian]

7. NOW with David Broncacio

better with Bill Moyer's

[elehhhhna]

8. CNN International. BBC. almost anything.

[joemurphy]

9. Interesting that no one can name five. I can't either

1. The News Hour - PBS (Hands down the best)
2. Frontline - PBS
3. NOW - PBS

I watch Olberman's MSNBC Show but, let's face it, a lot of it is lightweight fluff (not "venerable or serious-minded")

4. There's a lot of good stuff on C-Span - But I can't think of a "program" there I regularly watch. The lectures on Book-TV are good.

But for all our hundreds of cable channels, there really isn't much American out there that's any good. The venerable and serious-minded BBC is hands-down better than anything we have here.

[Bjornsdotter]

10. I watch

BBC, DW Journal, Foreign Exchange, International Dateline and NOW.

Cheers

[babylonsister]

11. Democracy Now falls into this category; nt

[Berry Cool]

12. I will take the fluff on Olbermann to get to the serious stuff.

Because it's worth it.

And everyone needs a little fluff sometimes. People who are serious all the time are boring.

[cool user name]

13. As well as Mosaic on LinkTV