COMMENTS: Booming Blizzard Across Kansas
It snowed like thunder over the great plains, enough to be Story of the Day. NBC led with a double-pronged report on the blizzard courtesy of its sibling network, The Weather Channel: Mike Seidel in Kansas City and Jim Cantore in Lincoln. On ABC, Ginger Zee heard that thunder rumble in the deserted streets of Topeka. Zee offered a mixture of folksy cuteness -- a friendly gnome and "girl" bovines -- with the service journalism that is typical of ABC: News You Can Use on how not to perish while motoring in a blizzard. A carbomb detonated in downtown Damascus, so CBS led with Syria, its signature international beat for the last two years. Unfortunately Clarissa Ward found herself in Egypt instead so she had to refer to the blast from afar; by coincidence, Terry Moran has been filing from the Syrian capital all week so, for once, ABC had the inside track.
Clarissa Ward's report on CBS turned out to be a pre-taped feature filed from Beirut on the flight of Christians from Syria, alienated against both sides in the civil war. ABC's David Muir filed part two of his Inside Iran series from Teheran (part one Wednesday) on the economic woes imposed by trade sanctions. Pharmaceuticals are in such short supply that the father of a leukemia patient traveled two hours in the vain hope of finding medicine. Muir calculated that the man's taxi fare was an astonishing $500.
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