News is the communication of selected information about current events. It is shared in various ways: between individuals and small groups; with a wider audience; or in ways that blend these traits. Before modern technology came to facilitate the spread of news around the world, even before the printing press began producing newspapers, it was spread by town criers. People wouldn't know what was happening. One of the thirty-minute news programs is CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley; NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams is the other news program broadcast. On May 8, I recorded and observed both half-hour newscasts and surprisingly pointed out numerous differences and similarities. Not only do the two news programs have a male anchor and have more than ten (but less than fifteen) stories, but they also have exactly five similar stories; the first three stories are ordered chronologically. The first parallel story is about veterans affairs and why veterans were not receiving their benefits. (On CBS) A veteran's relative was interviewed and said her grandfather would have to wait several days to get checked for his medications. (On NBC) The family of a veteran is suing a hospital for failing to check up on their World War II veteran relative who died of a stroke. The second story is a weather report, but it's not like your weekly weather report. The weather forecast says a tornado has devastated Vilonia, Arkansas, destroying homes in its path and killing fifteen civilians. Another story is a search for Nigerian girls kidnapped by chance. An estimated three hundred students were captured by Nigerian terrorists, the terrorists demanded that the prison... middle of paper... be prepared for the new national football league drafts, not interested in the players who would be drafted their specific teams because I only watch the Super Bowl. Overall, the differences and similarities between the two thirty-minute news shows surprised me a bit, not because they covered stories that people are willing to listen to, but because they showed no sign of bias towards each other. news programs offered by CBS and NBC, a cable news program called “The Colbert Report” not only shows bias toward other broadcast news, but satirizes it. Unlike other cable news programs (like FOX or CNN and the like), "The Colbert Report" is one of the programs on Comedy Central that shows a different approach (but a parody) version of conservative political pundits; the other is “The Daily Show with John Stewart”.