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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM APRIL 24, 2013
The investigation of the Brothers Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bomb was the lead on all three newscasts, although each network chose a different angle. NBC and CBS both led from their Washington DC bureaus: Pete Williams reported on the screening of Tamerlan Tsarnaev by the FBI on behalf of Russia before his six-month trip to Dagestan in 2012; Bob Orr reported on the building of the pressure-cooker bombs, dropping the hint that they were financed by marijuana trafficking. ABC, whose newscast was co-anchored by David Muir in New York and by Diane Sawyer at the soon-to-open Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, kicked off with Dan Harris on the now-reopened Boylston Street. For the eighth straight weekday, the Boston bombs were Story of the Day.
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BOSTON STAYS STRONG AT TOP OF NEWS AGENDA The investigation of the Brothers Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bomb was the lead on all three newscasts, although each network chose a different angle. NBC and CBS both led from their Washington DC bureaus: Pete Williams reported on the screening of Tamerlan Tsarnaev by the FBI on behalf of Russia before his six-month trip to Dagestan in 2012; Bob Orr reported on the building of the pressure-cooker bombs, dropping the hint that they were financed by marijuana trafficking. ABC, whose newscast was co-anchored by David Muir in New York and by Diane Sawyer at the soon-to-open Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, kicked off with Dan Harris on the now-reopened Boylston Street. For the eighth straight weekday, the Boston bombs were Story of the Day.
ABC's Harris picked up on the same angle that CBS' John Miller covered on Tuesday, namely, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother, now hospitalized, was neither armed nor dangerous during the manhunt, despite police insistence to the contrary. Harris saw nothing wrong with such official misinformation. "Justifiable," he called it.
Other angles in the aftermath of the Boston story included…
NBC's Katy Tur at the memorial ceremonies for Sean Collier, the murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer;
CBS' Charlie d'Agata in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on the scrutiny of Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the suspects' mother;
And a pair of hospital bedside profiles. NBC's Kerry Sanders explained why the man who helped apply the lifesaving tourniquet for student Victoria McGrath had kept a low profile after his heroism. Tyler Dodd told a white lie about his non-existent Afghanistan war wounds to keep her spirits up.
CBS' Don Dahler profiled Adrianne Haslet, the same ballroom dancing teacher, now a one-legged amputee, who was brought to us by ABC's Gio Benitez on Monday. Dahler's report landed the superior soundbite: "I said, 'Mom will you help me? It feels like my foot is falling asleep.' And she said, 'Adrianne, honey, you don't have a foot.'"
WEDNESDAY’S WORDS ABC anchor Diane Sawyer slapped an Exclusive label on her two-part sitdown with George W Bush on the eve of the dedication of his Presidential Library. In the serious part one, Sawyer covered homeland security, and the invasion of Iraq, and same-sex marriage, and Campaign 2016 -- and glossed over Hurricane Katrina, and torture, and AIDS in Africa, and the financial crisis, and the hanging chads of Campaign 2000, among others. In the light-hearted part two, Sawyer extracted a tone of bashful modesty about the supposedly Chardinesque Bush brushwork. David Gregory, anchor of NBC's Meet the Press did not interview the former President, but he did survey his eight-year tenure, during which Gregory had been NBC's White House correspondent. Gregory did touch on September 11th, the invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis, education reform, AIDS in Africa, Social Security, immigration -- but still no mention of torture by name, just "an erosion of civil liberties."
ABC and CBS offered follow-ups to Tuesday's fake Associated Press story, released via a hacked twitter feed, of an explosion of the White House. CBS' Anthony Mason debunked Tuesday's reporting by ABC's Rebecca Jarvis and NBC's Lisa Myers that the fake news had triggered an automated sell-off on the stock exchange. Instead, high-frequency trader Manoj Narang told him, human beings would have reacted first by selling, and the computers would have reacted to the humans' sales, not to the underlying fake news. On ABC, Jarvis' follow-up was about how easy it is for hackers to break the log-in passwords on our personal computers' online accounts, too.
Floodwatch on the Illinois River: NBC's John Yang was in Peoria; ABC's Alex Perez was in Florence; and CBS' Dean Reynolds had the best line. Guess what replaces frittered catfish as the specialty on the menu at the Campsville Inn. Swimming ones.
Maybe it is not rising cholesterol levels that is the health problem when we eat too much red meat, CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook suggested, following the latest New England Journal of Medicine research. LaPook had his network's computer animators show us how digestive bacteria in our gut turn the meat protein lecithin into the chemical TMAO. It may be high levels of TMAO that are the key indicator for potential harm to one's heart. Earlier this month, NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman pointed the finger at carnitine.
Rehema Ellis nailed down that always-charming assignment to Montreal on NBC, to file almost precisely the same story that her colleague Tom Costello filed four years ago. Canadian college tuition is less expensive and McGill University is a great place to study.
For the third straight day, we were told that when there are fewer air traffic controlers in towers, there are fewer flights that take off and land on time. CBS' Carter Evans filed from LAX and NBC's Tom Costello told us about a House committee hearing at which the FAA was accused of springing the delays on passengers as a surprise. Costello dug out a quote from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in February warning of precisely this outcome.
A cooler flying story was filed by John Blackstone on CBS. Check out the Solar Impulse and its cool Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg. I thought the machine (already featured by CBS' 60 Minutes) was spectacular enough to carry the story yet Blackstone apparently felt he had to inject extra star power, via Chesley Sullenberger. I suppose Sully has to earn his keep, since he is on the CBS payroll as a consultant.
ABC's Harris picked up on the same angle that CBS' John Miller covered on Tuesday, namely, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother, now hospitalized, was neither armed nor dangerous during the manhunt, despite police insistence to the contrary. Harris saw nothing wrong with such official misinformation. "Justifiable," he called it.
Other angles in the aftermath of the Boston story included…
NBC's Katy Tur at the memorial ceremonies for Sean Collier, the murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer;
CBS' Charlie d'Agata in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on the scrutiny of Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the suspects' mother;
And a pair of hospital bedside profiles. NBC's Kerry Sanders explained why the man who helped apply the lifesaving tourniquet for student Victoria McGrath had kept a low profile after his heroism. Tyler Dodd told a white lie about his non-existent Afghanistan war wounds to keep her spirits up.
CBS' Don Dahler profiled Adrianne Haslet, the same ballroom dancing teacher, now a one-legged amputee, who was brought to us by ABC's Gio Benitez on Monday. Dahler's report landed the superior soundbite: "I said, 'Mom will you help me? It feels like my foot is falling asleep.' And she said, 'Adrianne, honey, you don't have a foot.'"
WEDNESDAY’S WORDS ABC anchor Diane Sawyer slapped an Exclusive label on her two-part sitdown with George W Bush on the eve of the dedication of his Presidential Library. In the serious part one, Sawyer covered homeland security, and the invasion of Iraq, and same-sex marriage, and Campaign 2016 -- and glossed over Hurricane Katrina, and torture, and AIDS in Africa, and the financial crisis, and the hanging chads of Campaign 2000, among others. In the light-hearted part two, Sawyer extracted a tone of bashful modesty about the supposedly Chardinesque Bush brushwork. David Gregory, anchor of NBC's Meet the Press did not interview the former President, but he did survey his eight-year tenure, during which Gregory had been NBC's White House correspondent. Gregory did touch on September 11th, the invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis, education reform, AIDS in Africa, Social Security, immigration -- but still no mention of torture by name, just "an erosion of civil liberties."
ABC and CBS offered follow-ups to Tuesday's fake Associated Press story, released via a hacked twitter feed, of an explosion of the White House. CBS' Anthony Mason debunked Tuesday's reporting by ABC's Rebecca Jarvis and NBC's Lisa Myers that the fake news had triggered an automated sell-off on the stock exchange. Instead, high-frequency trader Manoj Narang told him, human beings would have reacted first by selling, and the computers would have reacted to the humans' sales, not to the underlying fake news. On ABC, Jarvis' follow-up was about how easy it is for hackers to break the log-in passwords on our personal computers' online accounts, too.
Floodwatch on the Illinois River: NBC's John Yang was in Peoria; ABC's Alex Perez was in Florence; and CBS' Dean Reynolds had the best line. Guess what replaces frittered catfish as the specialty on the menu at the Campsville Inn. Swimming ones.
Maybe it is not rising cholesterol levels that is the health problem when we eat too much red meat, CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook suggested, following the latest New England Journal of Medicine research. LaPook had his network's computer animators show us how digestive bacteria in our gut turn the meat protein lecithin into the chemical TMAO. It may be high levels of TMAO that are the key indicator for potential harm to one's heart. Earlier this month, NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman pointed the finger at carnitine.
Rehema Ellis nailed down that always-charming assignment to Montreal on NBC, to file almost precisely the same story that her colleague Tom Costello filed four years ago. Canadian college tuition is less expensive and McGill University is a great place to study.
For the third straight day, we were told that when there are fewer air traffic controlers in towers, there are fewer flights that take off and land on time. CBS' Carter Evans filed from LAX and NBC's Tom Costello told us about a House committee hearing at which the FAA was accused of springing the delays on passengers as a surprise. Costello dug out a quote from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in February warning of precisely this outcome.
A cooler flying story was filed by John Blackstone on CBS. Check out the Solar Impulse and its cool Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg. I thought the machine (already featured by CBS' 60 Minutes) was spectacular enough to carry the story yet Blackstone apparently felt he had to inject extra star power, via Chesley Sullenberger. I suppose Sully has to earn his keep, since he is on the CBS payroll as a consultant.
