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NBC became the third newscast in the last three weekdays to give publicity to the debate over funding healthcare for World Trade Center workers damaged by toxins from the destroyed Twin Towers. Jonathan Karl filed Friday for ABC; Nancy Cordes Monday on CBS. Now Kelly O'Donnell completes the trifecta. Karl and Cordes both offered a tip of the hat to Jon Stewart's non-comedic lobbying on The Daily Show. O'Donnell concentrated on the personal lobbying of the sickened workers themselves.
When the Senate decided not to block a vote on ratification of the latest START treaty, ABC's Jake Tapper decided it was time to cover the agreement as a bilateral arms control story rather than yet more inside-the-Beltway politics. He actually told us about nuclear warheads, long-range missiles, strategic bombers, and stockpile inspections.
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