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Monday all three newscasts -- NBC's Richard Engel, CBS' Allen Pizzey, ABC's Martha Raddatz -- covered the escalating belligerence between Israel and Syria. Now, CBS' Clarissa Ward brings us the prospects for an outbreak of fighting in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Filing from Zaatari Camp, Ward warned that the mass influx of refugees from Syria may tip the kingdom into crisis.
The Pentagon correspondents at NBC and CBS followed up on the arrest of Col Jeff Krusinski, the head of the USAF program to prevent sexual assaults. Krusinski is charged with a drunken sexual assault in an Arlington Va parking lot. CBS' David Martin had to preface his soundbite from Secretary Chuck Hagel with a reminder of the presumption of innocence. Hagel was "outraged and disgusted" at the allegations against Krusinski. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski covered the same angle that Martin brought us Monday: the increasing numbers of military women deciding to go public with a formal complaint of rape or molestation, up 6% annually. Miklaszewski included a cross-promotion for his colleague by using an Andrea Mitchell Reports soundbite from MSNBC.
Normally passing a round-number milestone like 15,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average would have been a newsworthy enough to receive blanket coverage. It did, for example, back in July 2007, when it surpassed 14,000. The Cleveland story was so dominant that the landmark received just brief mentions, from CBS' Anthony Mason and ABC's Rebecca Jarvis.
There is a group of ladies in North Carolina who help down-on-their-luck neighbors by laying new shingle on their homes. Byron Pitts introduced us to the Women Roofers last October. NBC's Stephanie Gosk must have liked Pitts' "Southern belles" so much that she decided to replicate it for her network's Making a Difference feature. The gossip-ridden roof, it seems, is like Las Vegas.
NBC anchor Brian Williams gave a tip of the hat to the New York Post for breaking the story that Gov Chris Christie, the New Jersey Republican, is losing weight after undergoing lap-band stomach surgery. Williams sat down with Christie in front of a shuttered sausage stand on the rebuilt Seaside Heights boardwalk along his beloved Jersey Shore to publicize his Exclusive on the Rock Center primetime magazine. The story was not so exclusive, since Paula Faris also covered it on ABC, complete with a Virtual View computer animation depicting what is going on in the governor's intestine. Both Williams and Faris used that clip of Christie's self-deprecating doughnut gag with David Letterman on CBS' Late Show.
You remember ABC's Vega, in her report on Jaycee Dugard, reminding us that her captivity had once been scrutinized by anchor Sawyer? Now check out ABC's Faris, in her report on Chris Christie. It turns out that his weight problem had once been scrutinized by anchor Sawyer.
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