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In this way, the existence of public broadcasters makes commercial channels softer because the public broadcasters may already have hard news locations occupied.
Finally, while soft news coverage of politics includes substantially less policy content than hard news reporting, such programs nevertheless do impart substantive information to viewers.
Some readers might also argue that network news magazines e belong in the hard news category.
Hard news loses out because of the dumbing down of reader and viewer interests.
Soft news ignores primaries and off-year elections and covers more crime and education and war than was the norm on hard news shows.
In reporting speeches, as in reporting the ' hard news ', a commitment to nonpartisan ' newsgathering ' could limit the effectiveness of a particular policy advocacy.
This implies that appeals by political leaders are unlikely to change the minds of most hard news enthusiasts.
Starr doubled the size of the news staff and concentrated on hard news.
