The night had started with team news featuring interest at both ends of the age spectrum.
The radio was always on for the four-o'clock news, featuring international disasters and domestic socialist successes.
Online, the emphasis has been on celebrity news, featuring Ms. Cole and other A-, B- and C-list figures whose every facial wrinkle or fashion choice is scoured for the possibility of extracting a headline.
Channel 4 has confirmed a second series order of 10 O'Clock Live, the satirical take on the week's news featuring Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell, but has tweaked the show's format and cut its running time to 45 minutes.
After a brief round up of the news featuring a photo of Nicky Morgan looking like a dead ringer for a Piero della Francesca Madonna, Stratton started drawing random circles on a screen that Peston insisted on calling Screeny while McVey managed to call Zac Goldsmith's sister Gemma.
Maybe it's the nightly news featuring presidential candidates who call a quarter of the country, "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it"―willing to tear a country apart all for the sake of a win.
