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Before Clarissa Ward became CBS' go-to correspondent covering the rebellion in Syria, she had been ABC's woman in Moscow. So it was apt that CBS, the network that has always covered the rebellion in Syria most, should send Ward to Moscow for a sitdown with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Russia's policy towards Syria. No, Russia only supplies Bashar al-Assad's regime with defensive weapons, not arms to be used against civilians. Yes, Russia supports the peace conference in Geneva, and expects the opposition to attend. Yes, war crimes trials for atrocities are appropriate, but only after peace has been established.
The news about the grave condition of Nelson Mandela sent Mark Phillips of CBS and Keir Simmons of NBC to stand watch outside his hospital from London. ABC did not join in for Mandela's last hospitalization in March, and it has not yet done so this time.
Crime coverage saw Matt Gutman, as usual, assigned to ABC's coverage of the Trayvon Murder case. As mentioned on Friday, Gutman has been his network's stalwart since the teenager was murdered. Ron Mott covered the start of the selection of a jury to hear the prosecution of George Zimmerman for NBC, to which substitute anchor Lester Holt properly appended the note that Zimmerman is suing NBC News for defamation. CBS' crime coverage consisted of a follow-up to Friday's shooting at Santa Monica College. That death toll is now six, and Carter Evans brought us the account of Debra Fine, injured by four bullets from the gun of John Zawahri, the dead 23-year-old.
This time last year, NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman warned children that the aggressive diagnostic use of CT scan machines can increase their risk of developing cancer. Now, NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman warns children that the aggressive diagnostic use of CT scan machines can increase their risk of developing cancer.
The modification to the Find My iPhone app that Apple will offer for its smart phone is nothing like the technology depicted in the TV classic Mission Impossible but that was no deterrent to Gio Benitez. He included a clip anyway, as he recycled street theft surveillance video from his ABC colleague Pierre Thomas last September and Linsey Davis last month. The updated app has nothing to do with secret agents -- it just deters Applepicking.
Also on the hi-tech beat, NBC's Stephanie Gosk paid tribute to the non-profit nonPareil Institute in Plano, and to software firms SAP and Alliance Data for their Big Idea that many autistic adults have a special aptitude for writing code for computer games and smartphone apps.
Reporters who confuse doing journalism with being a character in their own reality show…
…see ABC's Ron Claiborne giggle as his hair is groomed by a baby clouded leopard…
…see CBS' Ben Tracy prove that he cannot cycle up Colorado hillsides as fast as the winner of the Fleche Wallonne…
…see ABC's Jennifer Ashton humiliated, as her complaints against her snoring husband for disturbing her slumber are proven to be groundless by sleep expert Wendy Troxel.
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