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The calamity caused by the tsunami in northern Japan attracted saturation coverage for the third straight weekday (50 mins v 51 on Monday, 50 last Friday; respectively 85%, 86%, 82% of the three-network newshole). Anchor Diane Sawyer was again on the scene for ABC, moving from Sendai to Tokyo for her network's Disaster in the Pacific special edition. NBC, too, called its newscast a special edition--Disaster in Japan--even though anchor Brian Williams remained in New York City. The lead angle on all three newscasts (here, here and here) was the worsening crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex: fires and explosions, cracks in concrete containers, fears of nuclear meltdown, plumes of radioactive steam, and the evacuation of homes for kilometers around.
Andrew Tyndall 3/17/11 9:25:09 pm

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