Which of the following best describes the change in viewership for the nightly news broadcasts between its peak and the mid-2000s?

Nightly network news viewership fell substantially from its peak as audiences shifted to other sources, including cable news and the Internet. This makes choice A, “Viewership decreased significantly because of the rise of Internet and cable news,” the best description. The choices claiming that viewership increased or stayed about the same do not match this decline.

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