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ABC was the only newscast to assign a reporter to cover what may be "the beginning of the end" for Chrysler, as Chris Bury put it. The four-week shutdown of operations will mean that 46,000 union workers will have to go on unemployment. Bury also quoted a report by Moody's Investor Service that General Motors "is likely to file for bankruptcy with government backing." Bury's colleague Jonathan Karl followed up from Capitol Hill with speculation that "a short-term lifeline" will most likely be thrown to the Detroit automakers on Friday.
Bury did double duty on ABC's newscast, following up with a more optimistic take on the automobile sector's future for the Spirit of America series. He traveled to Toledo, which used to be a center for auto parts manufacturing, producing windshields and vinyl seats for cars. "To secure its future Toledo embraced its past. It was once known as Glass City, where glass was first mass produced for bottles, buildings and cars." Now glass has gone green, being fabricated into thin flexible solar cells, panels and coating to turn sunlight into electricity--"from the faded glory of Glass City to the shiny promise of Solar Valley."
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