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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM MARCH 11, 2011
The networks do not staff their Tokyo bureaus with A-list correspondents. When a massive undersea earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter Scale, sent an eight-meter-tall wall of water ashore in the form of a devastating tsunami, they resorted to rarely used reporters to bring us the latest from Japan itself. Yet thanks to advances in video technology, the downsized bureaus did not result in any shortage of riveting footage. The carnage in the Sendai region, northeast of the capital, was terrifying. All three networks led with a compilation of eyewitness cell-phone and YouTube video. Appropriately, the catastrophe attracted saturation coverage, accounting for fully 82% (50 min out of 61) of the three-network newshole. NBC called its newscast a special edition: Disaster in Japan; ABC chose Disaster in the Pacific.
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SCANT CORRESPONDENTS IN JAPAN; NO VIDEO SHORTAGE The networks do not staff their Tokyo bureaus with A-list correspondents. When a massive undersea earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter Scale, sent an eight-meter-tall wall of water ashore in the form of a devastating tsunami, they resorted to rarely used reporters to bring us the latest from Japan itself. Yet thanks to advances in video technology, the downsized bureaus did not result in any shortage of riveting footage. The carnage in the Sendai region, northeast of the capital, was terrifying. All three networks led with a compilation of eyewitness cell-phone and YouTube video. Appropriately, the catastrophe attracted saturation coverage, accounting for fully 82% (50 min out of 61) of the three-network newshole. NBC called its newscast a special edition: Disaster in Japan; ABC chose Disaster in the Pacific.
FRIDAY’S FINDINGS Who are those Tokyo correspondents you have never heard of? CBS' Lucy Craft; ABC's Akiko Fujita; CNBC's Kaori Enjoji on NBC
ABC found that tsunami footage so compelling: first Dan Harris, then more video, than Elizabeth Vargas, then a photo essay
How to find a domestic angle on a Japanese disaster? NBC's Miguel Almaguer, CBS' John Blackstone on buffeted Californian marinas
How to find a domestic angle on a Japanese disaster? ABC's Bill Weir, NBC's George Lewis on lax Californian preps for The Big One
Quake…then tsunami…then The China Syndrome Japan-style? ABC's Chris Cuomo, CBS' Nancy Cordes, NBC's Anne Thompson
Plate Tectonics 101 on Ring for Fire from CBS' Harry Smith, NBC's Tom Costello: here was Christchurch, here Concepcion
FRIDAY’S FINDINGS Who are those Tokyo correspondents you have never heard of? CBS' Lucy Craft; ABC's Akiko Fujita; CNBC's Kaori Enjoji on NBC
ABC found that tsunami footage so compelling: first Dan Harris, then more video, than Elizabeth Vargas, then a photo essay
How to find a domestic angle on a Japanese disaster? NBC's Miguel Almaguer, CBS' John Blackstone on buffeted Californian marinas
How to find a domestic angle on a Japanese disaster? ABC's Bill Weir, NBC's George Lewis on lax Californian preps for The Big One
Quake…then tsunami…then The China Syndrome Japan-style? ABC's Chris Cuomo, CBS' Nancy Cordes, NBC's Anne Thompson
Plate Tectonics 101 on Ring for Fire from CBS' Harry Smith, NBC's Tom Costello: here was Christchurch, here Concepcion
