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NBC's Making a Difference feature was filed by Joe Fryer of that network's KARE-TV affiliate in Minneapolis. It was his second follow-up on Nick Nelson, the nine-year-old who requested to have his own leg amputated last year because he was born with a web of skin behind his knee that prevents his from standing straight. Fryer showed us the prosthesis in February. Now he guides us through the boy's decision to have his second leg cut off.
CBS' Steve Hartman chose disability too, for his weekending closer on Assignment America. When the marching band of the Ohio School for the Blind spells out the state's name on the football field, it is not in script like the giant Ohio State University outfit. It uses Braille.
ABC's Person of the Week was a civic choice for anchor Charles Gibson. He paid tribute to the electorate: "The right to vote is the bedrock of democracy and this week a record number of you exercised that right." The number Gibson cited, 125m, was actually disappointing. On Election Day, his own network's David Muir anticipated "at least 130m" while George Lewis on NBC told us "up to 140m lined up."
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