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ABC's Pierre Thomas darkly told us that it had been Osama bin Laden's ambition to sabotage a passenger train inside the United States when he reported on the arrest of a pair of unidentified alleged derailment plotters. Only two problems: the theoretical derailment was targeted for the undesired side of the border, in Ontario; and prosecutors assured us that the suspected plot was not operational.
Spring floods are rising in the Mississippi River basin. CBS' Dean Reynolds watched the Illinois River in Spring Bay; ABC's Alex Perez saw sandbagging along the Missouri River in Clarksville.
NBC anchor Brian Williams wanted us to catch up on all the news we had missed last week because of that saturation coverage of the Boston bombings. He reminded us how quickly his network forgot about North Korea even after its drumbeat of headlines. He mentioned that the fertilizer explosion, the gun control debate, and the ricin-laced letters had all been overlooked, when in fact they were not.
Williams was correct to state that last week's bombings in Baghdad were more lethal than those in Boston by an order of magnitude. And he was correct to state that the nightly newscasts paid them absolutely no mind.
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