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All three stock market packages -- by ABC's Linzie Janis, NBC's Tom Costello, CBS' Anthony Mason -- raised the pertinent question: if stock prices have rebounded so completely since 2007, how come the labor market has not too? Easier asked than answered.
The pocket-knife rule was revised so that international airline travelers and domestic ones can fly by the same set of rules. NBC's Pete Williams told us that 35m Americans routinely carry pocket-knives; CBS' Bob Orr and ABC's David Kerley filed the other two reports.
The winter snow packages were interesting to see just how miserably cold the anchors in their cozy studios could make the reporters appear in the field. NBC's John Yang and CBS' Dean Reynolds did indeed look miserable. By contrast, ABC's Alex Perez was having fun with Tim the Snowplower, who was finally in the money.
Only NBC elaborated on Monday's lead story: the refusal of a nurse in Bakersfield to perform CPR first aid on an elderly woman who had collapsed at an independent living facility. In-house physician Nancy Snyderman filed an oblique follow-up on the contents of Do Not Resuscitate orders and the difference between nursing homes and assisted living and independent living. Dr Nancy's report suggested that the dead woman in Bakersfield had contemplated Do Not Resuscitate -- yet she did not address that question directly one way or the other. So we were left none the wiser as to whether or not the Bakersfield nurse is vindicated, and whether or not the EMS 911 dispatcher was bullying her on those audiotapes.
A couple of weeks ago I rapped ABC's Paula Faris for her Real Money report on reducing the cost of pharmaceuticals. It purported to be News You Can Use yet offered no generalizable application. Now Faris tells us that she heard that same complaint from many viewers. In response she turns to Doug Hirsch, who has a pharmacy price-comparison application at goodrx.com. His app found prices of generic Lipitor at neighborhood pharmacies that varied between $147 and $15 for the same prescription. That is no typo: between $147 and $15.
And three weeks ago, CBS' Dean Reynolds visited with Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County to publicize the overcrowding of his jail. Now CBS has John Miller to return to Sheriff Dart to get chilling video of his jailers restraining and forcibly medicating mentally-ill inmates. Miller delivered the horrible statistic that mental patients constitute 64% of the population of the nation's jails.
The visual arts -- classical and modern -- found a showcase on CBS. The modern saw John Blackstone marvel at Leo Villareal's LED installation on the Bay Bridge. The classical saw Allen Pizzey checking out the Conclave-ready Sistine Chapel with art historian Arnold Nesselrath, with Michelangelo's rendition of St Peter handing over the Papal keys, and a computer animation of the cardinals' voting procedure.
Yet again (see Manti Te'o), sports stories disregard the truth for the sake of mawkish inspiration. I am sorry but…
…it is inconceivable that the Los Angeles Dodgers offered a legitimate spring training tryout to Daniel Jacobs, as NBC's Miguel Almaguer implied.
…it is inconceivable that Alzheimer's Disease patient Pat Summitt is the author of the new memoir Sum It Up, as ABC's Robin Roberts claimed.
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