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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown moved on from Camp David, where NBC's David Gregory covered him yesterday, to the United Nations, where NBC anchor Brian Williams obtained an Exclusive interview. Williams asked him about Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine, about his predecessor Tony Blair and his dead daughter and his disabled son--"I do not really talk about it"--but not about Topic A of his address to the UN, the authorization of a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force in Sudan. By contrast, ABC sent Jonathan Karl to Darfur where he covered the government's propaganda efforts, complete with celebrations by dancing villagers in brightly colored robes, to assure officials from a dozen African nations that "everything is just fine." Their tour of the abu-Shouk refugee camp was a rolling visit: "We see the squalor from outside our windows but they are not giving us an opportunity to actually go out and talk to the refugees." As for the accusations of a 400,000-or-so death toll in the region, Gov Osman Youssef Kebir of North Darfur offered his counter-estimate: "Less than 9,000."
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