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None of the three newscasts found a single foreign story newsworthy enough for coverage: nothing was filed from a foreign dateline; there was no foreign policy angle on a domestic item; not even a simple voiceover of a clip of overseas videotape. Instead, guess what NBC anchor Brian Williams decided should warrant more than four minutes of airtime? His own network's decision to revamp its primetime entertainment line-up to include five hours a week of topical comedy from Jay Leno, the soon to be replaced host of NBC's late-night Tonight. It is impossible to imagine a rationale for deciding that Williams' interview with a disheveled Leno occupies a higher place on the news agenda than student riots in Greece or cholera in Zimbabwe or anti-Islamist raids in Pakistan or the renewed recession in Japan.
Oops sorry…NBC did mention in passing that cancer will become the globe's deadliest disease within two years, according to the World Health Organization…and ABC showed a clip of Al Gore worrying about global warming with Barack Obama…but what can such global concerns amount to in comparison with Leno at 10pm?
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