CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Thursday’s Thoughts

NBC former anchor Tom Brokaw continues his tour of Saudi Arabia. Just like his sitdown with the Foreign Minister, Brokaw asks no follow-up…

Prince al-Waleed, the billionaire, called NATO's role in Libya "a big shameful act...no policy, no strategy, no objective." Is that because NATO is doing too much or too little?

Of the last six features filed on women warriors in the US armed forces, NBC's profile of Apache helicopter pilot Jessica Cioci from Logar Province was the first to be filed by a man, Jim Maceda

The bacon diet seemed a trivial hook for in-house physician Richard Besser's feature on an epilepsy cure on ABC. Surprise! His explanation of glucose and ketones in the brain turned out to be informative

John Blackstone on CBS covered the iPhone's GPS database record of the user's location as a privacy story. Pete Williams on NBC chose the law enforcement angle...

…but surely Apple is storing all those data to help sell targeted hyperlocal advertising. Isn't it really a media story?

Very little evidence of the presumption of innocence in Chris Cuomo's coverage of the hate crimes prosecution of Dharun Ravi on ABC, or in Elaine Quijano's on CBS Wednesday…

…Isn't it possible that the videostream from the Rutgers campus of Tyler Clementi's sex life did not lead to his suicide? Or that Ravi was teasing his roommate not bullying him?

Celebrity suck up: NBC's Kate Snow on a teenage Jacqueline Bouvier; ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Elizabeth Windsor, aged 85. "She likes gin, we are told"

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