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Both Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer were toiling away in the morning news timeslot five years ago when teenage tourist Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba and Joran van der Sloot became a household world--at least among viewers of Good Morning America and Today. So it is no surprise that ABC and CBS, where Sawyer and Couric now anchor, should cover van der Sloot's arrest on their nightly newscasts. NBC Nightly News decided this week to treat the tabloid curiosity with the disdain it deserves.
ABC's Linsey Davis has filed once, on van der Sloot's reported confession in a murder case in Peru, in which he is said to have killed a 21-year-old woman after she tried to find out information about him and Holloway on his laptop computer. CBS' Elaine Quijano has filed twice, once on the reported confession and now on a bungled FBI sting in which van der Sloot was apparently paid $15K by the FBI as a downpayment for supposedly leading Holloway's mother to her daughter's dead body. van der Sloot apparently used the FBI's funds to fly to Peru, where the second woman was found dead.
CBS' Quijano also covered van der Sloot's arrest last week--and, to be fair, NBC did have Michelle Kosinski file a brief stand-up from Peru at that time, so its hands are not totally clean.
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