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NBC's Andrea Mitchell offered a tip of the hat to The New York Times for its reporting on the mountains of cash doled out to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan by the spooks at the Central Intelligence Agency. Karzai was apparently shaking down the mullahs in Teheran, too. Note the way Mitchell explains that a non-denial denial is a confirmation.
Last Friday, CBS' Holly Williams provided facetime to opposition leader Ghassan Hitto, Syria's would-be Prime Minister, in exile. Now her colleague Barry Petersen covers the civil war from the point of view of the loyal residents of Damascus, still supporting the Baath regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Kidnapping by criminal gangs is more of a concern than rebel mortars or snipers.
ABC got hold of video from Epic TV on the feud at the top of the world. As many as a hundred sherpas are brawling with a trio of mountaineers -- Simone Moro, Jonathan Griffith and Ueli Steck -- in the rarefied air of Mount Everest. John Donvan narrated the fighting from ABC's bureau in Washington DC.
Last week NBC's Rehema Ellis suggested that students can save on college tuition by heading north of the 49th Parallel. McGill University was her hot pick. Now ABC's Paula Faris touts Ithaca College in her Real Money feature: ask politely for reconsideration and it might cut an extra $30K off its sky-high four-year tuition fees.
Erin Moriarty of CBS' primetime 48 Hours made a rare appearance on the evening newscast for a true-crime update on cruel and unusual punishment in California. That is what its overcrowded prison system amounts to, according to the Supreme Court. See Moriarty's story of the relief that ruling affords to Aaron Collins, a 46-year-old non-violent lifer.
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer also took advantage of the evening newscast to promote a true-crime primetime exclusive of her own. That will be her sitdown with Amanda Knox, the exchange student appealing her murder conviction in Perugia, as she launches her book tour Waiting to be Heard. Ms Knox is apparently astonished that people would look upon her as a murderer once she had been convicted of said crime. Watch Sawyer's report and tell me if there was a single sliver of news to be found in it.
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