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CBS led with fire and NBC with disease. After Mississippi River floods were the Story of the Day each day last week, it is now time for fire to provide weather porn video. CBS' Sandra Hughes and ABC's Laura Marquez (embargoed link) both filed from northern California where the drought-plagued forest was torched by dry lightning storms. The diabetes story, too, was covered by a correspondent on two of the three newscasts. NBC's Robert Bazell and ABC's Lisa Stark (embargoed link) covered CDC estimates that 24m nationwide are afflicted with the disease, an increase of three million in just the last two years. Disproportionately, patients tend to be poor or people of color, noted Bazell, "so all too often, those with the disease do not have access to the medical care that is critical to keeping the diabetes under control."
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