1.   A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel.

2.   About twelve million people watch morning news programs.

3.   American television news programs are getting worse and worse.

4.   Hardly anything they put on the news programs these days is believable.

5.   News programs tend to focus on trivia at the expense of serious issues.

6.   Some kind of news program comes on, in black and white.

7.   The federal law allows only libraries or archives to tape an audiovisual news program.

8.   The lines between re-creations and reality are so muddled that some news programs have even used Hollywood films to illustrate news stories.

9.   The news program was once considered a dead duck.