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On Tuesday and Wednesday, NBC relied on anchor Brian Williams to lead its oil slick coverage as he broadcast from Louisiana. Williams consoled a shrimp fishing family…he misleadingly interviewed a former Shell Oil executive…he answered FAQs with in-house physician Nancy Snyderman…he toured polluted spoonbill nesting grounds. Now, with Williams back behind his anchor desk in New York City, NBC tried a more dynamic technique for summarizing the day's oil developments. Using a wheel of correspondents, anchor Williams introduced Anne Thompson to tell us about the seabed drilling, who handed off to Lisa Myers on BP's corporate fate, who handed off to Chuck Todd on Barack Obama's political leadership, who handed off to Mark Potter on Pensacola's missing tourists, who handed off to Kerry Sanders on Louisiana's tarry shores.
Well done, NBC. A lively nine minutes of television that put the story, not the anchor, first.
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