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If it were not for the torrential rain pounding the northeast the day would be almost entirely lacking in hard news. All three newscasts led from a sodden Rhode Island, where the Pawtuxet River was swollen with hundred-year floods. The weather was the Story of the Day. After that not a single event was newsworthy enough to warrant coverage by a correspondent at each of the three networks.

Sam Champion, anchor Diane Sawyer's longtime meteoro-sidekick at Good Morning America, got ABC's newscast off to a rollicking start by wading thigh deep through the roiling waters of Cranston RI in bright yellow weather gear. Julie Martin of the Weather Channel was less ostentatious on NBC, confining herself to a verbal description: "Like many of the residents here, we ourselves have had to move locations many times to escape the rising waters." On CBS, Whit Johnson promised more of the same: "The rain is still falling. The river is still rising. The worst is still ahead."

Andrew Tyndall 3/31/10 6:56:49 pm

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