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The State Department issued its annual report on the state of the Global War on Terrorism but none of the three newscasts deemed it newsworthy enough to warrant a reporter. Instead, the Pentagon correspondents at NBC and CBS picked up on a YouTube.com hit posted by Edward Frawley, the father of a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne. The son's unit returned from fighting in Afghanistan to barracks in Fort Bragg: "After going without showers for weeks they found showers that were unspeakable," as CBS' David Martin put it. Frawley added what NBC's Jim Miklaszewski called a "scalding narration" to his video documentation of blocked plumbing, raw sewage, omnipresent mold and peeling paint. The video received 250K hits in a single week and "the barracks were repaired immediately," Martin reported, "which only makes it harder to explain why it could not have been done before the soldiers got home."
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