Norah O’Donnell, anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” opened Monday night’s newscast standing in front of burned-down buildings in Kula, Hawaii — a community devastated by wildfires.
Over on NBC, Tom Llamas stood in front of incinerated cars and dusty fields where homes once stood. National correspondent Miguel Almaguer was in Lahaina, Maui County, Hawaii, where the landscape looked like something out of an apocalyptic movie with buildings destroyed and smoke still floating in the air.
And ABC’s “World News Tonight” showed frightening images of residents clinging to sea walls and standing in the ocean while fires raged in the distance. A team of reporters interviewed those who somehow survived the fire and told the stories of some of those who didn’t. ...
Why is it important for anchors to go to the actual scene of stories when they could cover the news from studios back in New York or Washington?
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