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The air raids by the Israel Defense Force on a Syrian military convoy heading for Lebanon occurred too late for detailed packages. Both ABC's Martha Raddatz and NBC's Richard Engel filed brief live reports on the destroyed SA-17 surface-to-air missiles, apparently Hezbollah-bound.
NBC offered publicity to The Future, Al Gore's book that tells yet more inconvenient truths. Andrea Mitchell suggested that he was the hypocrite, to badmouth fossil fuels yet to accept Qatari oil money in selling Current TV to al-Jazeera. See Gore's non-responsive response.
Quarterly macro-economic statistics on the Gross Domestic Product are so dry that they are the devil to turn into video news. Last year CBS was much more likely than its rivals to make the effort. Even when fourth quarter data surprisingly revealed that the economy stopped growing as 2012 ended, again only Anthony Mason filed. On ABC, David Muir was so preoccupied about adding human interest that he forgot to mention what this "speed bump" actually consisted of. Instead he went off topic, treating us to woltersworld.com, a retired couple offering tips on how to cash in one's 401(k) on global tourism.
By the way, guess where Anthony Mason filed his GDP report from. Yes, New Orleans. Guess where Jim Axelrod filed his report on restaurant tourism from. Yes, New Orleans. Where has CBS filed three other reports from this week alone, two by Mark Strassmann and one more by Axelrod? Yes, New Orleans. Where is CBS Sports preparing to broadcast the NFL Super Bowl this weekend?
As for actual Super Bowl stories, NBC's Stephanie Gosk offered the most obvious feature of all -- the Harbaugh coaches' sibling rivalry -- following ABC's Steve Osunsami on the Ole Miss double-Blind Side on Tuesday. ABC's latest celebrity sports story, by Bob Woodruff, was off-season. He speculated that the baseball Yankees would fire Alex Rodriguez. Because he can no longer hit a lick? No. Because he cheats? No. Because they agreed to pay him too much.
Dan Harris seemed so proud of the viral flying pussycat video that he had made with the ASPCA that he seemed unable to take Tweety Bird's side against Sylvester in his ABC closing feature. The feline threat to the avian population is serious, according to Smithsonian researchers, but Harris was determined to make a horror movie joke of it, complete with a cameo by Ben Johnson, the Coming Attractions voice-over. And what was Harris trying to imply when his example of a small mammal killed by cats was a chipmunk? Think Tom & Jerry, Dan.
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