Disproving predictions of nightly newscasts' demise
By Brian Stelter, CNN
The next time I'm asked about the relevance of the network nightly news, my answer will involve Edward Snowden and Hillary Clinton.
Later this week, NBC will feature Snowden's first television interview since he decided to leak top-secret NSA documents to Glenn Greenwald and other reporters. The questioner is Brian Williams, the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News."
In a couple of weeks, ABC will have Clinton's first interview about her book "Hard Choices." The interviewer is Diane Sawyer, the anchor of "World News."
These are two Q&A's that every television network wanted to have — "big gets" at a time when there are fewer and fewer of them.
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