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The "Danny" interview by CBS' Miller had little new information. It was newsworthy because the story was being told directly by a blacked-out face, albeit in an anonymous voice-altered first person, rather than indirectly, through the retelling of the journalist Moskowitz, that ABC's Linsey Davis brought us on Friday. As for the rest of the Boston coverage, NBC's Pete Williams brought us the bureaucratic response inside-the-Beltway as intelligence agencies double-check their early warning systems; ABC's Brian Ross reiterated the possible link in Dagestan between the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev and a fellow boxer, the Canadian William Plotnikov, that he mentioned on Monday.
This is how Barack Obama's press conference made news:
CBS' Bill Plante covered the President's response to his own question about the hundred hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay and NBC's Andrea Mitchell used that soundbite as the hook for an examination of the military crackdown and medical force-feeding there. About time too: in the previous three years, the three nightly newscasts between them had filed only a puny five packages on that quagmire in Cuba.
ABC's White House correspondent Jonathan Karl covered the President's sarcastic response to his own question about a lack of clout on Capitol Hill: "Put it that way, Jonathan, and maybe I should just pack up and go home. Goll-ee!" Karl tied that quip into a package with an Obama soundbite on Syria.
Syria was the topic that NBC's White House correspondent Chuck Todd picked up on. As he did last Friday, Todd noted how cautious, caveat-filled and conditional were the President's comments about a military response by the United States to the possible use of chemical weapons by the embattled Baath regime in Damascus.
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