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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM APRIL 04, 2011
The aftermath of Friday's midair emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight was the unanimous choice for Story of the Day. All three newscasts led with the questions surrounding Boeing 737 jetliners after a hole appeared in the roof of one fuselage at 34,000 feet. Oxygen breathing masks were released. The pilots put the plane into a steep dive to restore air pressure. ABC and NBC had their transportation correspondents, Lisa Stark and Tom Costello, lead off with the Federal Aviation Administration's response: an inspection order for metal fatigue cracks in older 737 models, the workhorse of the Southwest fleet, whose schedule depends on frequent short-haul takeoff-and-landing cycles. CBS went to Dallas with Don Teague.
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THERE’S A HOLE IN MY BOEING The aftermath of Friday's midair emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight was the unanimous choice for Story of the Day. All three newscasts led with the questions surrounding Boeing 737 jetliners after a hole appeared in the roof of one fuselage at 34,000 feet. Oxygen breathing masks were released. The pilots put the plane into a steep dive to restore air pressure. ABC and NBC had their transportation correspondents, Lisa Stark and Tom Costello, lead off with the Federal Aviation Administration's response: an inspection order for metal fatigue cracks in older 737 models, the workhorse of the Southwest fleet, whose schedule depends on frequent short-haul takeoff-and-landing cycles. CBS went to Dallas with Don Teague.
NBC followed up with anchor Brian Williams' interview with Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board. Sumwalt reassured us that the schedule for safety inspections depended on a plane's number of cycles, not its years of service, so the fact that Southwest runs a short-haul fleet does not mean that its planes are underinspected.
MONDAY’S MUSINGS ABC continues to downplay the Libya story (16 min last week v NBC 34, CBS 26) with no mention of the Battle of Brega: NBC's Richard Engel and CBS' Allen Pizzey both filed from Benghazi
Instead, catch the hair-raising account by Mike Boettcher, ABC's embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne, from Barawala Kalay, a remote mountain valley in eastern Afghanistan that is a) beautiful and b) deadly…
…Boettcher did not tell us why the US wanted to conquer the valley, only that it was a Taliban safe haven: "No foreign troops had ever dared come here." In a firefight lasting "five relentless hours" culminating in close air support, the GIs killed 100 local fighters, suffering only six dead themselves
No trial by jury for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the lead conspirator in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. NBC's Pete Williams and CBS' Bob Orr covered the decision to keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open after all…
…ABC's Jake Tapper mentioned Gitmo in passing, devoting most of his package to the second story of Campaign 2012. CBS' Jeff Greenfield filed the first a month ago
Why did Jim Axelrod file a story on natural gas pipelines on CBS? Because he could string together file footage of them blowing up real good
Hey ABC! This is World News not GMA! Sharyn Alfonsi on food cravings was the fourth piece on weight loss fads in the last four months. Cut back!
ABC and CBS both closed their newscasts with features on family life in the inner city…
…CBS' Assignment America followed up on Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes feature (here and here) on a teenage gospel choir. Steve Hartman showed us the Bronx public housing project for generation-skipping grandparents and singing children…
…ABC anchor Diane Sawyer found a mawkish "fairytale" in Harlem where the Daddy & Daughters Ball has pre-teen girls dress up in formal gowns to boogie with their tuxedo-clad fathers
NBC followed up with anchor Brian Williams' interview with Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board. Sumwalt reassured us that the schedule for safety inspections depended on a plane's number of cycles, not its years of service, so the fact that Southwest runs a short-haul fleet does not mean that its planes are underinspected.
MONDAY’S MUSINGS ABC continues to downplay the Libya story (16 min last week v NBC 34, CBS 26) with no mention of the Battle of Brega: NBC's Richard Engel and CBS' Allen Pizzey both filed from Benghazi
Instead, catch the hair-raising account by Mike Boettcher, ABC's embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne, from Barawala Kalay, a remote mountain valley in eastern Afghanistan that is a) beautiful and b) deadly…
…Boettcher did not tell us why the US wanted to conquer the valley, only that it was a Taliban safe haven: "No foreign troops had ever dared come here." In a firefight lasting "five relentless hours" culminating in close air support, the GIs killed 100 local fighters, suffering only six dead themselves
No trial by jury for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the lead conspirator in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. NBC's Pete Williams and CBS' Bob Orr covered the decision to keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open after all…
…ABC's Jake Tapper mentioned Gitmo in passing, devoting most of his package to the second story of Campaign 2012. CBS' Jeff Greenfield filed the first a month ago
Why did Jim Axelrod file a story on natural gas pipelines on CBS? Because he could string together file footage of them blowing up real good
Hey ABC! This is World News not GMA! Sharyn Alfonsi on food cravings was the fourth piece on weight loss fads in the last four months. Cut back!
ABC and CBS both closed their newscasts with features on family life in the inner city…
…CBS' Assignment America followed up on Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes feature (here and here) on a teenage gospel choir. Steve Hartman showed us the Bronx public housing project for generation-skipping grandparents and singing children…
…ABC anchor Diane Sawyer found a mawkish "fairytale" in Harlem where the Daddy & Daughters Ball has pre-teen girls dress up in formal gowns to boogie with their tuxedo-clad fathers
