COMMENTARY: Peter, Paul and TV news

WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN to TV News? Two stories this week prompted that question: the death of the excellent Canadian-born ABC anchor Peter Jennings; and www.cartt.ca’s own feature on the first baby steps of Independent World Television News.Obviously, very little will happen to TV news in the short term. The world (not to mention the newsrooms of broadcasters) is still so full of baby boomers and others a little older and a little younger who can’t remember – or envision – a TV world without the six o’clock and eleven o’clock news that nothing is going to change immediately. There’s...