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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM MARCH 15, 2011
The calamity caused by the tsunami in northern Japan attracted saturation coverage for the third straight weekday (50 mins v 51 on Monday, 50 last Friday; respectively 85%, 86%, 82% of the three-network newshole). Anchor Diane Sawyer was again on the scene for ABC, moving from Sendai to Tokyo for her network's Disaster in the Pacific special edition. NBC, too, called its newscast a special edition--Disaster in Japan--even though anchor Brian Williams remained in New York City. The lead angle on all three newscasts (here, here and here) was the worsening crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex: fires and explosions, cracks in concrete containers, fears of nuclear meltdown, plumes of radioactive steam, and the evacuation of homes for kilometers around.
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SENDAI FOCUS SHIFTS FROM TSUNAMI TO N-PERIL The calamity caused by the tsunami in northern Japan attracted saturation coverage for the third straight weekday (50 mins v 51 on Monday, 50 last Friday; respectively 85%, 86%, 82% of the three-network newshole). Anchor Diane Sawyer was again on the scene for ABC, moving from Sendai to Tokyo for her network's Disaster in the Pacific special edition. NBC, too, called its newscast a special edition--Disaster in Japan--even though anchor Brian Williams remained in New York City. The lead angle on all three newscasts (here, here and here) was the worsening crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex: fires and explosions, cracks in concrete containers, fears of nuclear meltdown, plumes of radioactive steam, and the evacuation of homes for kilometers around.
TUESDAY’S TIPS Anxiety about possible nuclear disaster overshadowed the reality of the moonscape left by the tsunami: ABC's Clarissa Ward reset that balance
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer searches for survivors--and finds stacked crockery and a dead dog
Classily, CBS' Ben Tracy does not mawkishly milk the reunion of correspondent Lucy Craft with her Sendai-schooled teenage son
Paying tribute to the stoicism of Japanese culture: CBS' Bill Whitaker on orderly queues; NBC's Ann Curry on handmade chopsticks
Paying tribute to the 50 Fukushima workers left behind, Chernobyl-style: CBS' Jim Axelrod & in-house consultant Cham Dallas
Trio of worst-case nuclear experts: Carnegie's Acton on CBS; Princeton's von Hippel on NBC; in-house expert Cirincione on ABC
A full house of in-house physicians, LaPook, Besser, Snyderman, lists symptoms of radiation poisoning
Radiation can be your friend: ABC's Dan Harris has fun with his Geiger-counter on Columbus Circle granite
TUESDAY’S TIPS Anxiety about possible nuclear disaster overshadowed the reality of the moonscape left by the tsunami: ABC's Clarissa Ward reset that balance
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer searches for survivors--and finds stacked crockery and a dead dog
Classily, CBS' Ben Tracy does not mawkishly milk the reunion of correspondent Lucy Craft with her Sendai-schooled teenage son
Paying tribute to the stoicism of Japanese culture: CBS' Bill Whitaker on orderly queues; NBC's Ann Curry on handmade chopsticks
Paying tribute to the 50 Fukushima workers left behind, Chernobyl-style: CBS' Jim Axelrod & in-house consultant Cham Dallas
Trio of worst-case nuclear experts: Carnegie's Acton on CBS; Princeton's von Hippel on NBC; in-house expert Cirincione on ABC
A full house of in-house physicians, LaPook, Besser, Snyderman, lists symptoms of radiation poisoning
Radiation can be your friend: ABC's Dan Harris has fun with his Geiger-counter on Columbus Circle granite
