In an editorial, the Bee lauds Bob Costas and calls cable-news viewers the lowest common denominator in determining what should be covered:
"What's news? To cable television networks, it seems to be whatever draws viewers, and competition - especially between Fox and CNN - threatens to lower that common denominator. Cable news operations have turned endless coverage of personal tragedies almost into a grotesque art form. Add to Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson the name of Natalee Holloway, a young woman missing in Aruba for nearly three months.
"Bob Costas has reinforced the widespread judgment that he's a class act by refusing to engage in the ghoulish practice of dwelling endlessly on a single event - so far without result.
"Maybe this episode will help CNN - and Fox, whose growing ratings lead over CNN is obviously a source of worry to the latter - decide to draw a line, give a missing person report what it's due but not milk a sad story for everything it's worth and more."
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