Is the success of the Beeb's 10.00pm news a sign that we are getting back to a serious news agenda

Is this the beginning of the end for tabloid-style TV news? Let's hope so says Rachel Cooke in this week's new Statesman as she reviews the BBC AND ITV contributions to the news agenda at 10.00pm.

As bad as the BBC bulletin is,

the programme is presented by the sullen-looking Edwards and, thanks to the credit crunch, despite being increasingly hampered by the stretched vowels and mangled consonants of Robert "Smarty-Pants" Peston, the BBC business editor.

Rachel applauds the fact that the corporation have not gone head to head with the new and revamped News at Ten

When ITV reclaimed the 10pm slot three months ago, I worried that, in order to compete, the BBC would go the same route. We started hearing the word "exclusive" more often, and there were more pointless outside broadcasts, featuring Edwards standing white-faced and anoraked beneath an arc light

But all seems well for now

The success of the Ten O'Clock News gives me hope: that we are finally tiring of tabloid values; that the shouting match that is the multimedia age is leading us, slowly, to crave sobriety, to be grateful for considered and judicious editing.