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That is five-for-five on both ABC and NBC this week: both Matt Gutman and Ron Mott have been daily court reporters on the killing of Trayvon Martin. CBS skipped Mark Strassmann's coverage of the latest trial developments again, as it did on Thursday and on Tuesday. NBC started the week with Kendall Coffey as its in-house legal analyst; now, as he did Thursday, Mott offers a soundbite to analyst Lisa Bloom. ABC's analysis was handled from New York by in-house legal eagle Dan Abrams (at the tail of the Gutman videostream).
Thursday's lead on NBC, the exclusive by Michael Isikoff that a retired USMC general is being targeted as a spiller of Stuxnet secrets, received due respect from NBC's rivals, even though the respect was only implicit. Both CBS' Bob Orr and ABC's Pierre Thomas treated the potential disgrace of cyberwarrior Gen James Cartwright as worthy of coverage; neither mentioned that NBC got the story first. ABC News should have been especially embarrassed at not getting the scoop since the general is on its own payroll, Thomas told us. Apparently Consultant Cartwright was not sharing his insider knowledge in full.
The journalist with whom the general is suspected of cooperating, ABC's Thomas noted, was The New York Times David Sanger, supplying dope for his book Confront & Conceal. NBC's Michael Isikoff advanced his Thursday scoop by revealing that Cartwright had resigned "out of the blue" from his advisory position on the top secret Defense Policy Board after the FBI probe got under way. Isikoff relayed the assurance from the general's spokesman that the resignation and the investigation were unrelated.
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