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ABC went all domestic: it did not have a single correspondent file a story from a foreign dateline; it did not even cover the foreign policy hearings on Capitol Hill, where CIA Director Leon Panetta sought approval as the next Secretary of Defense. The only time ABC World News came close to a worldwide angle was in its Made in America series, with the Mustang-motoring team of David Muir and Sharyn Alfonsi. They inquired how many parts of a Toyota Camry and a Ford Escape were manufactured abroad and imported.
NBC, with substitute anchor Lester Holt, made a nod towards the world at large, assigning Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski to the Panetta hearings. His angle was al-Qaeda's remaining areas of influence: Yemen and Iraq, rather than Afghanistan and Pakistan. CBS' Pentagon man, David Martin, selected the Iraq angle of the Panetta hearings, picking up on the prediction that all US troops would not be leaving by the end of the year, as they are treaty-bound to do.
Under its newly-arrived anchor Scott Pelley, CBS seemed most determined to offer a global perspective: San-Francisco-based John Blackstone pointed to the Pacific Ocean as the source of the spring's extreme weather; London-based Elizabeth Palmer made her way to the refugee camp along the Turkey-Syria border, as the citizens of Jisr al-Shughour escaped military violence ordered by Damascus; business correspondent Anthony Mason traveled to Paris to monitor changing sexual mores in France in the wake of l'affaire DSK.
Also, check out Byron Pitts' closer from Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas. It is evidence of CBS' determination under anchor Pelley to keep covering the aftermath of the bursting of the housing bubble following Ben Tracy on Monday and Bill Whitaker on Tuesday.
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