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Sgt Clint Romesha was installed as a Medalist of Honor for his heroism in Afghanistan. ABC's Jonathan Karl covered the ceremonies at the White House. Pentagon correspondents Jim Miklaszewski at NBC and David Martin at CBS revisited the story of the siege of Romesha's outpost, called Camp Keating, in October 2009 in Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan.
For the record, ABC revisited the same siege last November in order to publicize Jake Tapper's book The Outpost. Tapper has since moved on to CNN otherwise, doubtless, he would have offered his recapitulation too. Here is ABC's Martha Raddatz reporting from three years ago on the disciplinary punishment of two of Romesha's field commanders for leaving him and his comrades so vulnerable. Here is how the original battle was reported back in October 2009: by ABC's Chris Cuomo (he, too, is now at CNN), by CBS' Mandy Clark, and by NBC's Jim Miklaszewski (some of the archival links are broken now MSN has converted to Bing).
Disney, the parent corporation of ABC News, is in the cruise liner business, so it is no surprise that industry news should be of special interest to that network -- even when it does not involve a Disney ship. Leaving aside last year's Concordia disaster off the Italian coast, eight of the 16 cruise liner misadventures in our database were filed by ABC. Matt Gutman's latest was on Carnival's Triumph, powerless and adrift in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico after a fire in her engine room.
Making a Difference for sick children in hospital has been a a specialty at NBC. See high-rise window-washers dress in superhero costumes to win smiles, via Mark Potter.
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