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Not for nothing is Oklahoma known as the Buckle of the Bible Belt. ABC's David Muir and NBC's Lester Holt (no link) both played a homevideo of wreckage with the voiceover "The Lord Giveth…" CBS' Mark Strassmann followed the grieving Hornsby family to church. Schoolma'am Rhonda Crosswhite confessed to NBC's Snow that she had violated the First Amendment by praying in front of her students. NBC anchor Brian Williams told Mayor Glenn Lewis of Moore that his community operates "faith-based FEMA." Governor Mary Fallin told CBS anchor Scott Pelley that what Oklahoma needs now is the prayers of others. "God has his reasons for everything, I believe," a homeless homeowner told ABC's Cecilia Vega.
As an antidote (hat tip Andrew Sullivan's The Dish) check out CNN's Wolf Blitzer's Bible Belt experience.
The only package on all three newscasts that bothered to probe the public policy implications of the disaster was on NBC. Why did so many homes and schools not have reinforced safe rooms? Tom Costello investigates.
What feature did ABC to run instead of public policy? Anchor Diane Sawyer brought us animal crackers.
They called out the National Guard. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez and CBS anchor Scott Pelley tagged along as they searched-and-rescued in the rain.
ABC's xTreme Weather Team stormchaser Ginger Zee dug up a highly questionable calculation of probabilities from Weather Decision Technologies, the mobile phone app provider. I do not believe that the 94-year-old Nancy Davis, sorry Nancy E Davis, is a one-hundred-trillion-to-one shot and Zee did nothing to try to change my mind.
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