I’d say this is a fair analysis of the content available on the home pages of most popular news sites. I’d say that some news sites are straddling the line between an evening paper and an evening local news broadcast. For example, the lead story on CNN.com right now is “Employees get to work on their online shopping” while other breaking stories include “Marble chunk falls from Supreme Court facade” and “Abused cheetah cubs protected by U.S. troops“.

From BaltimoreSun.com article: Evening papers are back - online

Web editors say readers look for stories about crime and politics, about local neighborhoods and communities, local sports and entertainment.

In other words, they’re hunting for the kind of news once found in evening papers, exactly at the times of day that once were the edition deadlines of those papers. In fact, newspaper Web sites increasingly have come to resemble their vanished afternoon brethren, albeit in electronic form and loaded with bells, whistles, blogs and podcasts.

Major newspapers in search of an all-day audience are publishing multiple versions of breaking stories: short ones to slap on the Web as quickly as possible, longer ones for readers who have time to leaf through the paper the next morning.

Source: Romenesko