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Normally, the teenage beat is a favorite on CBS. Showing her morning program roots, anchor Katie Couric usually favors adolescent trends tinged with parental anxiety and moral panic. So it was a surprise that the report about 15-year-old couch potatoes from the National Institutes of Health--as puberty arrives, physical activity declines--attracted coverage from Tom Costello on NBC and Miguel Marquez on ABC but was only mentioned in passing on CBS. Of the 34 reports on teenage topics aired during the first half of 2008, almost half (15 v ABC 8, NBC 11) were on CBS. Check out Daniel Sieberg on teenage girls' staged catfights or Michelle Miller on teenage girls' coordinated pregnancies or Randall Pinkston on marketing of caffeine and nicotine to teenagers or Jon LaPook on sexually transmitted diseases and teenage girls.
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