On Saturday's Nightly News, Lester Holt spent 25 seconds narrating a "news story" about how a team of scientists, engineers and pilots used 300 helium balloons to lift a 16' x 16' house 10,000 feet in the air--just like in the movie "Up"--for a National Geographic special called "How Hard Can It Be". On Monday's Nightly News, Brian Williams spent 25 seconds narrating a "news story" about how a team of scientists, engineers and pilots used 300 helium balloons to lift a 16' x 16' house 10,000 feet in the air--just like in the movie "Up"--for a National Geographic special called "How Hard Can It Be". Did we really need to see this story twice? Did we even need to see it once?
On Sunday's Nightly News, Anne Thompson reported on refugees at Tunisia's Djerba Airport who had fled the uprising in Libya and were now waiting to fly home to their native countries. Thompson hitched a ride on an American Air Force C-130 transport plane that was taking Egyptian citizens back to Cairo. She interviewed Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Stockman and showed footage of Marine Major Adam Lefringhouse using his Arabic language skills to welcome the Egyptians onto the plane. Everyone made it safely to Cairo. On Monday's Nightly News, Anne Thompson reported on refugees at Tunisia's Djerba Airport who had fled the uprising in Libya and were now waiting to fly home to their native countries. Thompson hitched a ride on an American Air Force C-130 transport plane that was taking Egyptian citizens back to Cairo. She interviewed Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Stockman and showed footage of Marine Major Adam Lefringhouse using his Arabic language skills to welcome the Egyptians onto the plane. Everyone made it safely to Cairo. It was the same story on both days! Did the producers think we wouldn't notice that Thompson was wearing the same clothes in both reports? Sunday's story was simply repackaged as a "Making A Difference" report for Monday. Why is Nightly News re-running the exact same stories more than once? With all that is going on across the country and around the world, how can the producers justify wasting the viewers' time airing the same story twice? Instead of reporting unimportant things twice, why don't they report important things once? This is why Nightly News is a joke.
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