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NBC had correspondent Richard Engel in New York City and producer Ali Arouzi in London yet they were still able to piece together coverage on the first major street demonstrations in Teheran in eleven days. "The opposition had gone underground," Engel commented, before emerging in response to online networking to commemorate the tenth anniversary of a student revolt that the government "also brutally put down." These protests ended with tear gas and billy clubs. Engel talked to unidentified "analysts" who predicted that demonstrations henceforth will be "sporadic as the opposition tries this new hit-and-run-style tactic."
ABC, by contrast, had Clarissa Ward exploring the Moslem neighborhoods of Urumqi in search of Tursun Gul. She is the woman who represented "the most striking image" of Xinjiang Province's ethnic unrest between Uighur and Han. Ward showed us the photograph of Gul "hobbling on a crutch toward a wall of stone-faced soldiers and armored vehicles demanding to know what they have done with her family." When Ward located Gul she asked about her courage. "How could I be afraid when I did not commit any crime?" she replied. Her husband and four brothers have still not been heard from. In all, Ward added, police have made 1,400 arrests.
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