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CBS' international desk performed double duty: Holly Williams on the riots in Istanbul was clearer than Contributor Rice on Syria. Neither NBC nor ABC had a correspondent file from abroad. Williams' final insight into why the Turkish government is unpopular: its ban on booze.

Given that all three newscasts are saturated with Low-T ads for testosterone supplements by AndroGel and the like, ABC made the principled decision to assign Neal Karlinsky to cover their risks and likely overuse. There was not much fresh in Karlinsky's report however: compare it to his feature from last September and you'll see the same buff babyboomer booster and the same six-pack-abs graphics.

America! America! See David Muir test drive a Winnebago on the Las Vegas Strip for ABC's Made in America series. See Bob Woodruff praise Lisa Vasiloff's Birthday Wishes charity (the same one Rehema Ellis showcased on NBC four years ago) for ABC's America Strong.

NBC anchor Brian Williams followed up on Friday's five-minute preview for his primetime Rock Center segment. On Friday he sat down with six legless women, all amputees from the Boston Marathon pressure-cooker bombs. Now Williams gives us a close-up of one of them, Erika Brannock, the last of the six to leave the hospital. Turn to CBS in the same closing segment and you will see Lee Woodruff sit down with the same Brannock, and her sister Nicole Gross, and the runner they were cheering when the explosion happened, their mother, Carol Downing.

Did you catch that? Lee Woodruff filed the closing feature on CBS from Boston while Bob Woodruff filed the closing feature on ABC from Roxbury. Compare Mr and Mrs Woodruff and you'll hear that he is the professional broadcaster, warzone brain damage and all. He crowned the family weekend by including birthday homevideo of the Woodruff toddler twins in his feature. I wonder which network covered the expenses for the family weekend in Massachusetts.
Andrew Tyndall 6/5/13 1:00:23 pm

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