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There was a hint of a scandal at Fort Hood, where an army sergeant responsible for preventing sexual abuse in the ranks may have been pimping out a female subordinate as a prostitute. All three newscasts assigned a correspondent to it, but details were skimpy, so they resorted to a procedural Pentagon story on a tightening of supervisory rules. NBC and ABC went to their Pentagon correspondents: NBC's Jim Miklaszewski used a clip from his network's just-canceled primetime magazine Rock Center, so it no longer worked as a useful as cross-promotion; ABC's Martha Raddatz' was more colorful, ridiculing the seemingly absurd instruction aides used to persuade molestation-minded soldiers to behave themselves.
Presumably the reason why CBS assigned the Pentagon story to Anna Werner in Dallas and the activists from the Grace Under Fire female veterans' group was because David Martin was having too much fun out at sea on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush. See the free publicity he lavished on the USNavy in return, a follow-up to his publicity for the X-47B drone in February. In between, Martin showcased the other side of the navy's hi-tech arms race, a laser cannon that can shoot drones down.
Angelina Jolie may have attracted attention to the risk of cancer, but NBC's Robert Bazell covered not the prevention of a potential tumor but the treatment of an actually existing one. He deployed his network's computer animation to show immunotherapy using genetically-altered T-cells to medicate melanoma. In December, ABC's in-house physician Richard Besser and CBS' Elaine Quijano showed us a similar T-cells treatment for leukemia. No word from Bazell on how much the medicine, called Yervoy, costs. Rest assured, it is "very expensive."
It was four years ago that ABC's Jeffrey Kofman touted San Miguel de Allende in the central highlands of Mexico as a discount golden-years destination for American retirees. Now Kofman's colleague John Quinones suggests Cuenca in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. I have traveled to both Cuenca and San Miguel. Cuenca is cooler -- figuratively and literally.
If you want radio silence, this is a big telescope, and a quiet one. See NBC's Kevin Tibbles walk through its deep dish in West Virginia. If you want cacophony, NBC's Anne Thompson promised it a month ago in Connecticut. Now CBS' Jim Axelrod makes the same promise from New Jersey. That hollow abdomen is the 17-year key.
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