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Not only the feds, but also the White House received unanimous coverage. President Barack Obama traveled to Boston to speak at the memorial service for the three killed in Monday's attacks. CBS assigned its White House correspondent Major Garrett to the address. ABC and NBC used correspondents already on the scene: Linsey Davis and Lester Holt.
Both CBS' John Miller and ABC's Pierre Thomas (at the tail of the Ross videostream) added extra information on the FBI's manhunt outreach. Ross himself inserted a passing plug for The Anarchist Cookbook and hobbyists' remote-controled toy cars for any would-be bomb-makers in his audience.
All three newscasts closed with inspirational features on the mood in Beantown. NBC's Anne Thompson focused on the rallying cry Boston Strong, including morale-boosting T-shirts and the stirring Star Spangled Banner singalong celebrating "the Hub of America" before the Bruins' hockey game. CBS did what it does -- file an emotional anecdotal profile of a compelling individual in the middle of the action: Tracy Munro meets Elaine Quijano.
ABC's closing effort, by Dan Harris, was useless. In what way does evolutionary biology explain the human instinct towards self-sacrificing heroism? I could not understand. For what reason should we consult a professor at Harvard Business School to elucidate this theory? Beats me.
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