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For a change--consider the complaints here on Tuesday--all three newscasts filed stimulating reports from around the world. ABC's Jim Sciutto (embargoed link) told us about President Robert Mugabe's blind refusal to accept that a cholera outbreak amounted to a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski filed an In Depth report on the seven-hour battle between Green Beret commandoes and Afghan guerrillas in a remote outpost in the Shok Valley. Of the 40 Berets, eleven will be awarded Silver Star medals. Check out Sgt John Walding's tale of how he handled his injury when his foot was blown away.
Highest marks on the day, though, go to CBS' imaginative triple-header approach to globalized coverage. It started with seasonal fare as John Blackstone in San Francisco saw recession-weary parents starting to cut back on the number of toys they are buying as children's Christmas presents. Switch to southern China, where Celia Hatton went beyond the shuttering of toy factories in the globe's "real Santa's Workshop" to ancillary businesses. Fewer toys means lower demand for cardboard boxes to pack them in. Switch to the midlands of England, where a recycling firm that collects, sorts and bails used newspapers and boxes can no longer sell to China. Richard Roth told us that the price for a ton has fallen from $144 to $22 in the last year. So the fewer toys stuffing San Francisco stockings undercuts English greenery, as waste paper is dumped into landfills instead.
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