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Secretary Chuck Hagel, the new boss at the Pentagon, traveled to Kabul. CBS already had Charlie d'Agata based in Afghanistan so he filed a brief stand-up. NBC ran a brief video clip, without assigning a correspondent. As for ABC, Martha Raddatz voiced over four-year-old video of her own trip to Wardak Province from the Washington bureau.
You cannot say that NBC skipped world travel however. Actual travel was offered by Kerry Saunders from an Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica, complete with informative details about the value of glacial ice that turns pink and green. As for imaginary travel, Ann Curry gave a Making a Difference plug to John Butterill's Virtual Photo Walks project on Google Plus.
As for stories about personal health and medicine…
CBS followed up on the 60 Minutes expose of the New England Compounding pharmacy that anchor Scott Pelley publicized last Thursday and Friday. Jim Axelrod fingered another under-regulated compounder, run by Paul Franck in Florida, with a reminder of that string of Venezuelan polo ponies that keeled in Palm Beach over four years ago. Pelley (at the head of the Axelrod videostream), meanwhile, got Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to concede that the Food & Drug Administration lacked jurisdiction.
The in-house physicians at NBC and ABC -- Dr Nancy and Dr Rich -- both offered another plug for daily preventive aspirin.
The supersized soda story was also covered by a correspondent at both NBC and ABC. NBC's Rehema Ellis illustrated how serious the issue is with the factoid that obesity kills 5,000 annually in New York City alone. ABC's Gio Benitez illustrated how silly the controversy is by playing a clip of Jon Stewart making fun of it on The Daily Show. Despite this frivolity, ABC has covered the health consequences of drinking sugary soft drinks as heavily as NBC and CBS combined over the past three years -- and, before that, remember Diane Sawyer's epic on Mountain Dew mouth in Appalachia.
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