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Kerry was the frontrunner until this summer when he lost momentum to Dean, who now leads in New Hampshire with 25 percent of the voters on his side. About 19 percent of New Hampshire voters are Kerry supporters, according to a poll released yesterday by WHDH-TV and Suffolk University...
...survey released yesterday by Suffolk University and WHDH-TV found Romney has gained a four-point advantage, although that was still within the poll’s margin for error...
...variety of viewpoints and local relevance. Of the cities surveyed, Boston came in second to last for the overall quality of its newscasts. WBZ performed best among the city's three broadcasts, dropping to a high C from the B it received in a similar study conducted last year. WHDH improved from a D to a C, but WCVB, for so many years Boston's flagship station, dropped from a C to a lowly...
Without a doubt, the survey is justified in its gloomy appraisal of Boston's newscasts. Lately, not only have the other two stations followed WHDH's lead and become preoccupied with fancy graphics and sound effects, but they have also adopted WHDH's flair for the melodramatic. Shootings, stabbings, drug raids, car wrecks, arson and incidents of domestic violence are not only reported on Boston's newscasts, but have come to completely dominate them...
...easier for a station's news directors to listen to police dispatchers and send out a reporter when something juicy is happening than it is for them to create substantive story assignments about the effect of for-profit hospitals in the region or political patronage at the State House. WHDH does broadcast what it terms "investigative reports," but these reports very infrequently involve anything more than WHDH's reporter taking credit for someone else's research or placing a few calls in response to a viewer's complaint about being cheated by a business...