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Recent Examples of broadcastersAfter holding steady last year while commercial broadcasters such as Canal+ and TF1 scaled back, the public broadcaster will reduce its investment in film by €5 million in 2026.—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026 Once broadcasters enter the Pete Maher broadcast booth — named after the longtime, legendary Flames broadcaster — they’re treated to some of the best sight lines in the league for broadcasters.—Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.
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Andrew Katzenstein,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
World-famous newscasters didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was.
Add Anderson Cooper’s recent departure, and that’s three of the show’s seven full-time correspondents gone — meaning Bilton, Weiss, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski will immediately be in rebuilding mode.
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Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
There have also been a number of clashes this year with the show’s roster of longtime correspondents.
Fifty years ago audiences were riveted by that thriller that focused on two relentless newsmen, played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, who were digging into the seedy mysteries of the Watergate scandal.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
7 May 2026
Persons thus satirized included presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon, as well as newsmen Dan Rather and Ted Koppel.