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And both ABC and CBS closed their newscasts with sideline features on the President's primetime address (NBC closed with Roger O'Neil admiring Tiger Woods). CBS sent Mark Strassmann to Dillon SC where Ty'Sheoma Bethea is an eighth-grade student. She is the 14-year-old who wrote to the President to ask for federal help for her schoolhouse. Strassmann explained her plight: 85% of the students at JV Martin JHS live in poverty; the building is 113 years old and "falling apart;" the school's dropout rate is 60%. Barack Obama quoted from the girl's letter: "We are not quitters."
ABC's closing feature was by David Wright, who noticed tweets from legislators all night long--on celebrity guest Chesley Sullenberger and the health of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the House-vs-Senate rivalry. "Among hipsters and high school kids, Twittering is all the rage," mused Wright. "Now the establishment is catching on." He pondered the pros and cons of the phenomenon going politico: pro--it is "ideal for self-promotion and networking;" con--"politicians are not known for brevity." Can a Solon really confine himself to 140 characters?
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