Article: Media watch; TV barely skims campaign surface; With few exceptions, an analysis finds little air time devoted to the election and even less to issues of substance. The scarcity of ad watches is "a profound abdication of responsibility," the study's author says.(NEWS)

Twin Cities TV news stations have done an inadequate job of informing viewers about the candidates and issues in election 2000, according to an independent analysis of two months of newscasts.

Notwithstanding some examples of substantial, public-service-oriented work - especially by KSTP, Channel 5 - local commercial stations devoted too little broadcast time to the campaign and too little of that time to the substance of the candidates' proposals, according to Dean Alger, a Minneapolis-based expert on campaign advertising and campaign media and the lead author of the study.

Nick Macarelli, a Carleton College senior who worked on the project, said that ...

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