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The day's only other news deemed worthy of coverage by reporters at all three networks were the hearings by a House panel into a report by the Government Accountability Office into residential treatment programs for teenagers. That is their formal name: "tough love," was Brian Ross' nickname on ABC; "boot camps" by NBC's Tom Costello; "therapeutic wilderness programs," by Thalia Assuras on CBS. These programs cater to more than 10,000 teenagers each year, some sent there after abusing narcotics, some lacking discipline, others suffering from depression. NBC's Costello counted ten teenage deaths at the programs over a 15 year period and CBS' Assuras cited abuse complaints against some 1,600 staff members in a single year: the camps "often require that teens endure exhausting physical exercise and in-your-face discipline." Assuras quoted GAO anecdotes of youth being "forced to eat their own vomit, denied adequate food, being forced to lie in urine or feces." Bereaved parents told ABC' Ross that "the camps are more about tough than they are about love."
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