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Besides guns, Congress is also getting lobbied on immigration. NBC's Tom Costello inserted a cross-promotional soundbite from MSNBC's The Daily Rundown as he attended the march to Capitol Hill with its bilingual call for an offer of citizenship to those foreigners living here without green cards. ABC's Jim Avila journeyed to the deserted border ranchlands of rural Arivaca to show video supplied by secureborderintel.org of "hundreds" of people crossing the rickety fence that marks the line between southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
Carter Evans landed his scoop in February when he was on the scene for the shootout and cabin fire that killed Christopher Dorner, the revenge-minded former LAPD cop. Now CBS' Evans follows up on the dispute over who qualifies for the reward: see the case made by Karen and Jim Reynolds.
Justin Tribble was making a serious point about the Prosperity Gospel, preached by the Rev Joel Osteen, when he posed as the televangelist rejecting his Christian faith. Osteen denied the charge, yet forgave Tribble. So why did ABC's David Wright call this theological dispute a hoax, and predict that it might end in a lawsuit?
Contrasting stories aired on CBS about children from the developing world ending up in this country. The first saw Holly Williams travel to the village of Anand in India, where a reproductive clinic provides poor local women to act as surrogate mothers for rich couples' fertilized eggs. Williams' colleague Clarissa Ward filed a similar story from Hyderabad three years ago, when Ward was at ABC. Anand is cheaper, at $25K per pregnancy, compared with $45K. The second was about a war orphan from Sierra Leone, adopted in America by the DePrince family. Michaela DePrince, now 18, is a ballerina in the Dance Theater of Harlem. Michelle Miller introduced her to us.
This is how Amy Robach demonstrated in January, as part of ABC's Real Money series, how households are wasteful with the food they buy. This is how Robach recycled the highlights of that Real Money report, to illustrate the same statistics from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Too many critters! The primer on the 17-year mating cycles of cicadas by NBC's Anne Thompson was informative enough, but it really should have aired in the newscast's soft-focused closing slot. Thompson could not occupy that slot because it was taken by Kevin Tibbles' visit to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago (what is it with NBC and aquarium animals? See Katy Tur and her walrus at Coney Island just last week). And ABC's closer? Steve Osunsami visited the Noah's Ark animal sanctuary in Georgia, where a lion does lie down with a bear and a Bengal tiger.
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