Clinton aides admit they have no idea what McDougal turned over to investigators. CBS Evening News viewers got a spin more sympathetic to the White House. Phil Jones, CBS News, Washington. In two years and three plus months, Tuesday's Dateline interview with McDougal will be just the fifth Clinton-scandal story aired by the NBC magazine show. Dateline airs two to four times a week, or about 350 times since January 1, 1995.
Dateline averages four stories per show.
Five of 1,400 segments equals 0.3 percent, meaning 99.7 percent of Dateline stories have not dealt with Clinton scandals. Also on Monday the White House released another pile of documents. On CNN's Inside Politics and World Today viewers learned about some intriguing ties between John Huang and the Chinese Embassy. But the networks didn't pick up that angle. NBC Nightly News didn't mention anything about the papers.