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ABC also ran a financial feature and a financial interview. The interview was with Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's economy.com. His diagnosis--"Wall Street is shaking to the core"--was a sign that the bear market had come to an end. "At the bottom of all markets you have this kind of cathartic event where people just capitulate," he told anchor Charles Gibson. "They sell." In these dicey economic times, Bill Weir had the unenviable task of making his feature on the Forbes 400, the magazine's list of the richest American billionaires, not seem tasteless and tin-eared. Weir's college try concentrated on the 126 members of the 400 who happened to be less wealthy than they were twelve months ago: "While they may not get your sympathy"--well, in fact, they do not--"their eroding wealth should get your attention. Think of them as art collecting, polo playing canaries in the American economic coalmine." Weir's Exhibit A was Hank Greenberg, founder and former boss of AIG: he "fell off the list even before losing $800m this week."
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