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Nancy Cordes, CBS' Capitol Hill correspondent, moved the investigation into the IRS and the Tea Party forward. She obtained access to interviews with Elizabeth Hofacre and Gary Muthert, a couple tax bureaucrats at the Cincinnati office, who were handling the applications for non-political status by Tea Party groups. The cases were referred to an IRS lawyer at headquarters, only to be strangled by red tape.
All three newscasts covered the first storm of this year's Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. NBC used Mike Seidel of the Weather Channel, its sibling cable network. ABC kicked off its newscast with Good Morning America weathercaster Sam Champion. On CBS, the storm track forecast for Tropical Storm Andrea was filed by David Bernard of WFOR-TV, its Miami affiliate.
Monsanto's insecticide-resistant FrankenFood is on the loose in the wheatfields of rural Oregon and CBS' Ben Tracy is on the case.
Ernest Greene and Collin Smith form an odd couple that makes America Strong, as ABC would put it. Smith, aged 22, earned his bachelor's degree from High Point University in North Carolina. And, in his way, Greene, aged 72 and a devout Christian, earned his too. Josh Elliott explains why.
CBS has a soft spot for the Library of Congress. Here is a playlist of 13 reports from all three newscasts; eight of them have been filed by CBS. Chip Reid on the Veterans History Project is the latest.
Esther Williams, the bathing beauty of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died at age 91. The obituary on each newscast was filed by its anchor; each included file footage of interviews Williams had granted to each network. NBC's Ann Curry never told us whose questions Williams was responding to. On ABC, the 2007 sitdown was with Diane Sawyer herself. CBS' Scott Pelley had the pick of the bunch, showing Williams with Ed Murrow in black-&-white in 1960 on Person to Person. Did you know that she used to finish a lap swim of an entire quarter of a mile before she turned up to work at MGM each morning? "Kinda ridiculous!"
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