One of the smaller networks around, the CW still presents its own version of the evening news. Notice the diversity of the morning news crew at right.
Anchors: white woman, black male.
Weatherman: Chris Knowles (white male)
Sportscaster: Lolita (Hispanic female)
- A 600-student brawl in California is believed to be gang-related. Showed many black students on the campus.
- Police found the corpse of a 90 year old woman in the bathroom of a Wisconsin home. Her family was convinced that prayer would revive her corpse.
- A black female was turned away from her prom in Texas for her revealing outfit. She refused to leave and police were brought on the scene, who handcuffed her and took her away.
- Erica Hill (white female) reporting on food inflation. Working Americans are the newest group attending food banks, and there is not enough to give them. "How did the land of plenty get to this point?" The food budget surplus has fallen from $242 million to $58 million.
- Jenna Bush got married, but it was very secret and no photos have been released.
- Cyclone Nargas destroyed much of Mayanmar, killing between 63-100 thousand people according to UN estimates. The military government refused aid to most of its citizens, and went on with a scheduled vote for a new military constitution.
- In Sudan, the government defeated a rebel group and killed its leader.
- Garbage lines the streets in Naples, Italy, sitting rotting for 4 months.
- A new wave of theft from bagge claims have people worried their things will be stolen.
- Rapper DMX was arrested twice in one week. Once was for reckless driving when he was caught doing 114mph, and the other was more recent and for drugs and animal crulety.
- American Idol producers have banned one of the performer's dads from rehearsals after he added a lyric to his son's song that will cost the network extra money for royalties.
- Uma Thurman is suing Lancome cosmetics for using her image after her contract expired. She wants 15 million dollars.
- Madonna might get full custody of her adopted African baby. Social workers from Malawe are watching her to see if she should get custody.
- A new study shows that moms should breast feed their kids. Kids in the study who breast-fed scored 6 points higher on an IQ test than those who did not.
- Daryl Strawberry was featured in a Mets autisim awareness benefit. 1 in 94 boys gets the disease. Jim Watkins (white male) reported. The Mets raised thousands of dollars.
- A rescue mission in Chinatown is offering a free Mother's day dinner. Mostly Asians, but other races shown there as well.
The CW11 news seemed best at delivering the news with no present bias. I felt it was informative and featured a cast of different races and genders. They used less correspondents than the bigger networks, and stuck to a studio format most of the time. They also paid much more attention to celebrity news than the other stations. This may have to do with a limited budget (celeb stories are easy to present and produce) or the fact that it's on late night on a weekend, so these stories could be meant to entertain the late-night crowd.
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