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North Korea's nuclear threat was headlined as dangerous and new by ABC's Martha Raddatz. Listen to her actual details and it seems like neither.
Follow CBS' Elizabeth Palmer into the heartland of Mali. Watch the cardplayers, the donkey cart and the washerwomen of Diabaly. See Palmer hang out with hardcore Malian troops on their jeep.
Are the burning electrolytes in the lithium batteries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner a matter of concern? Who could be better for Sharyl Attkisson to consult for CBS than a onetime batterymaker at Everyready?
The icicle pictures were surely eyecatching enough to draw attention to the frigid cold in Alex Perez' How Cold Is It? round-up on ABC. His frozen egg, however, with the pathetic yolk joke, had less of an impact than his colleague Gio Benitez' banana hammer on Wednesday.
NBC's Katy Tur, like CBS' Elaine Quijano yesterday, used the winter weather as a news-hook to file a Superstorm Sandy updater. For the record, that is now the 33rd straight report on NBC on Sandy to be assigned to a female correspondent.
Try as he might, NBC anchor Brian Williams could not make yet another Camelot memorabilia collection up for auction seem interesting. He even dragged in his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews for a soundbite to argue for John F Kennedy's abiding appeal. But rather than bolstering the case, it just came off as a lame plug for Elusive Hero, Matthews' JFK bio.
Talking of cross-promotion…
…David Kerley on ABC slipped in a gratuitous plug for Intervention, the cable-TV reality show on A&E, in his round-up of addictions, overdoses and robberies associated with prescription Vicodin.
…Discovery had a stellar evening, landing a plug on ABC for the second time in three weeks. Earlier it was Sharyn Alfonsi for the nature documentary series Africa; now it is Bill Weir with big-lunged scuba-diving operatic soprano Emily Riedel in Discovery's reality series Bering Sea Gold.
…and CBS, which I swore yesterday hardly ever closes its newscast with an animal feature, proves me wrong, closing with animals two nights in a row. Yesterday, we saw Anna Werner's chimpanzees; now Michelle Miller's giant squid -- with eyes the size of your head -- caught by Discovery's marine documentarians for the series Curiosity.
…and ABC's Matt Gutman went back to the well one more time on the Manti Te'o story in order to promote katie, the syndicated daytime talkshow hosted by his colleague Katie Couric. This story grows more bizarre even as it grows less newsworthy. Gutman's new characters include Tessi Tolutau, a Polynesian beauty queen, and Ranaiha Tuisosopo, a Christian music video performer. The linebacker, Gutman told us, once had an eight-hour telephone conversation with the singer posing as a woman.
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