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NBC offered publicity to a Frontline documentary on PBS on the massacre of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha by a Marine Corps company in 2005. Mike Taibbi told us that Rules of Engagement argues that the Marines were not murderers. Instead it was the rules of war themselves that were reckless. Since then troops have been ordered to hesitate before killing civilians--"a lesson learned"…on ABC's A Closer Look, Pierre Thomas followed up on last week's killings at Northern Illinois University. Steven Kazmierczak purchased his guns legally despite a decade of treatment as a mental patient because the law forbids sales only to those committed by court order to mental institutions--and he had entered voluntarily…the San Francisco Zoo, where a Siberian tiger escaped its enclosure on Christmas Day and killed a human, is about to put its big cats back on public display. CBS' Bill Whitaker told us that the pen's wall is now six feet higher and surrounded by an 8,000-volt wire…ABC (44 min v CBS 31, NBC 27) has covered autism more heavily than the other networks since the start of 2006. John McKenzie brings us the tale of 13-year-old Carly Fleishman, an autistic mute who had never communicated until pain overcame her. "Help. Hurt. Teeth," were the first words she pounded out on a keyboard. Now her computer has a voice synthesizer and she talks by typing…bad luck Toshiba fans. CBS' Daniel Sieberg walked us through SONY's victory in the high-definition videoplayer wars. He called Blu-ray and HD-DVD "the same in terms of picture quality" and credited Wal-Mart and Warner Brothers for tipping the scales.
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