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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM APRIL 19, 2011
Monday, features marking the first anniversary of the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico qualified it as Story of the Day, even though ABC did not contribute. Now, the anniversary is Story of the Day again, with NBC skipping the coverage and extended features from ABC's Matt Gutman and CBS' Mark Strassmann. Strassmann covered the continuing pollution of Louisiana's coastal marshes; Gutman's Investigation looked into health problems plaguing local workers who were on the front line of the clean-up effort. NBC led with its own Investigation feature by Michael Isikoff into the business record of Donald Trump, the real estate billionaire turned reality gameshow celebrity (on NBC, yet) turned possible Presidential candidate. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer was in Washington to lead with Lisa Stark on snafu at Andrews AFB, where First Lady Michelle Obama's Boeing 737 flew too close behind a massive C-17 transport jet on approach to landing. CBS led with a pair of air traffic stories: Bob Orr covered both the Andrews snafu and a controler in the Cleveland tower who watched a DVD of the movie The Cleaner while on the job.
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OIL DISASTER ANNIVERSARY TURNS TO CBS AND ABC Monday, features marking the first anniversary of the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico qualified it as Story of the Day, even though ABC did not contribute. Now, the anniversary is Story of the Day again, with NBC skipping the coverage and extended features from ABC's Matt Gutman and CBS' Mark Strassmann. Strassmann covered the continuing pollution of Louisiana's coastal marshes; Gutman's Investigation looked into health problems plaguing local workers who were on the front line of the clean-up effort. NBC led with its own Investigation feature by Michael Isikoff into the business record of Donald Trump, the real estate billionaire turned reality gameshow celebrity (on NBC, yet) turned possible Presidential candidate. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer was in Washington to lead with Lisa Stark on snafu at Andrews AFB, where First Lady Michelle Obama's Boeing 737 flew too close behind a massive C-17 transport jet on approach to landing. CBS led with a pair of air traffic stories: Bob Orr covered both the Andrews snafu and a controler in the Cleveland tower who watched a DVD of the movie The Cleaner while on the job.
TUESDAY’S TIDBITS No foreign dateline Monday, a lone report Tuesday: Stephanie Gosk on NBC on the seaborne relief of the Siege of Misurata
Good for CBS' Pentagon correspondent David Martin, covering the pre-trial USMC brig maltreatment of Private Bradley Manning, presumed WikiLeaks innocent
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer traveled to Chicago two weeks ago to offer free publicity to McDonald's for its McJobs hiring spree…
…now ABC's Jim Avila and CBS' Anthony Mason both marvel at the thousands applying for work at below-poverty-level wages
More free publicity on ABC. Sharyn Alfonsi travels to Charleroi Pa to advertise Channel Craft's Made in America wooden toys
Mild Cognitive Impairment is now classified as early-stage Alzheimer's Disease: NBC's Robert Bazell & ABC's in-house physician Richard Besser worry the forgetful
CBS' public health focus was on Oxycodone: prescription painkiller overdoses kill more people annually than gunshots, per Jim Axelrod
Ruben Vives of Los Angeles Times earns plaudits from CBS' Bill Whitaker: the 32-year-old Pulitzer winner exposed the Bell city rip-off
TUESDAY’S TIDBITS No foreign dateline Monday, a lone report Tuesday: Stephanie Gosk on NBC on the seaborne relief of the Siege of Misurata
Good for CBS' Pentagon correspondent David Martin, covering the pre-trial USMC brig maltreatment of Private Bradley Manning, presumed WikiLeaks innocent
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer traveled to Chicago two weeks ago to offer free publicity to McDonald's for its McJobs hiring spree…
…now ABC's Jim Avila and CBS' Anthony Mason both marvel at the thousands applying for work at below-poverty-level wages
More free publicity on ABC. Sharyn Alfonsi travels to Charleroi Pa to advertise Channel Craft's Made in America wooden toys
Mild Cognitive Impairment is now classified as early-stage Alzheimer's Disease: NBC's Robert Bazell & ABC's in-house physician Richard Besser worry the forgetful
CBS' public health focus was on Oxycodone: prescription painkiller overdoses kill more people annually than gunshots, per Jim Axelrod
Ruben Vives of Los Angeles Times earns plaudits from CBS' Bill Whitaker: the 32-year-old Pulitzer winner exposed the Bell city rip-off
