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ABC's enthusiasm for lavishing free positive publicity on the Roman church has waned more quickly than that of its rivals. CBS and NBC have both filed daily since the election of Francis I. ABC skipped Friday and now Tuesday, merely voicing over video of his inaugural mass. For a summary of the proceedings, see NBC's Anne Thompson and CBS' Allen Pizzey.
No, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden assured a House panel: the agency has nothing better to suggest than prayer to prevent a meteor from hitting a city. No, Congressman Bill Posey (R-FL) agreed, the federal government does not have Bruce Willis in reserve to blow an asteroid off course. So what did Stephanie Gosk do on NBC to illustrate this lack of prevention? She showed its fictionalized existence, courtesy of a clip of Willis himself. Fantasy star wars are, after all, more visually exciting than real committee hearings.
Karen Bartlett, aged 53, has a horrible tale to tell, blinded and mutilated by an adverse reaction to a generic prescription painkiller. ABC had Linzie Janis cover her case from New England, where a second patient lost his intestine after taking a generic. CBS treated it as a Supreme Court story, with legal eagle Jan Crawford explaining the arguments on immunity for pharmaceutical generics, pro-and-con. NBC skipped Bartlett's lawsuit.
Each of the networks filed a feature about school days -- but look how different they were in tone:
On CBS, Ben Tracy introduced us to the daunting START (School Threat Assessment and Response Team) of the Mental Health Department of Los Angeles County. It monitors the 50 students in the unified school system most likely to blow their classmates away.
On NBC, its Stories of Progress series took us to the Miami-Dade School District, where the lack of funding for physical education has led to innovation. Rehema Ellis showed us kids kayaking, stationary bicycling, rock climbing, dancing videogames.
And which school has the coolest crossing guard? An elementary school in Silver Spring Md, that's who. ABC's David Kerley shows us the $15K-a-year, 6'5", 58-year-old, who now blows his own whistle.
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