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As for those other foreign stories…
NBC's Andrea Mitchell previewed the testimony of the State Department's Greg Hicks on the lack of response to the emergency at the Benghazi Consulate in Libya. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his fellow diplomat died too quickly for any action to save them. So Hicks' focus is on Woods and Doherty, a pair of civilians, former USNavy SEAL commandos, who were killed while hiding in a separate CIA annex some seven hours later. Mitchell did not call the "security contractors" spies by name, but if they were, they surely would have expected less protection than that accorded to diplomats.
Until you saw Margaret Brennan's one-on-one on CBS with Park Geun-hye, the new President of South Korea, who knew that the leaders of both Koreas were children of dictators? Those who saw Bob Woodruff's report from Seoul last month on ABC, that's who. President Park, Brennan told us, is accused of being an uppity woman with a "venomous swish of her skirt."
See David Muir order fast food in Spanish at a Carl's Jr outlet in Mexico City for ABC's Made in America series. He looks more like a participant in a reality show than a journalist reporting a story. See his colleague Paula Faris scarfing a quick bite from her trolley in the grocery aisle before reaching the checkout. She looks more like a participant in a reality show than a journalist reporting a story. Faris, by the way, was lavishing free publicity on nutritionist Brian Wansink of Cornell University, Wansink of the eternally-refilling soup bowl and the oversized dinner plate.
In domestic news, ABC's Pierre Thomas publicized another obscure citizen's militia. In 2011, he introduced us to the Covert Group, a quartet of murder-minded codgers at a Waffle House in Georgia. Now, a bust at a mobile home in Minnesota has apparently thwarted Buford Rogers' one-man Black Snake Militia.
To illustrate the impact that the proposed new sales tax law will have on small business, CBS' John Blackstone visited a San Francisco online retail firm to collect a soundbite in opposition. Only one problem: Inspirare's women's apparel sales are too small to be subject to the new law.
Last week, CBS' Nancy Cordes told us nothing about the public policy issues at stake in the special election in the First Congressional District of South Carolina. The Republican is famous for his paramour in Buenos Aires and the Democrat is famous for her funny brother. Now ABC's Jeff Zeleny provides the same lack of information, recycling a 2008 Colbert Report clip with Sanford that pre-dated the adultery scandal and an ABC clip from Barbara Walters with Sanford's ex-wife from 2009.
Almost every year, a correspondent from either CBS or NBC (mostly Anne Thompson) files a worrying report on the mysterious deaths afflicting swarms of honey bees. Now it is Thompson's turn once again. ABC does not seem to worry about lack of cross-pollination.
For its closer, CBS did what it does so often: honor photography. This time Lee Cowan brings us Charlie Haughey, with his shoeboxes full of negatives from the battlefields of Vietnam.
For its closer, NBC's Making a Difference feature saw Kevin Tibbles getting cute first graders at an unidentified school in Terre Haute to say the darnedest things. Who does Tibbles think he is, Art Linkletter? It must be a Canadian thing.
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