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NBC's other two White House stories were filed by Savannah Guthrie and anchor Brian Williams. Guthrie covered the signing ceremony for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, a law named for a Goodyear Tire supervisor who worked for 19 years in an Alabama factory, unaware that she was being paid less than her male counterparts. When she finally found out, she sued for $200,000 in back pay but the Supreme Court ruled that she had to file her claim with 180 days of her original underpayment. The new law starts that 180-day clock at each discriminatory underpayment not just the initial one. Guthrie observed that the law passed to late to help Ledbetter herself. "You lost your case. What did you win?" "Something that money could never buy and two really good friends in the White House."
The NBC anchor picked up on a photograph in The New York Times of a shirtsleeved President working at his desk in the Oval Office. Williams reminded us that George Bush laid down a jackets-only dress code in "direct response to the discomfort her felt" over seeing pictures of Bill Clinton in the Oval Office in a sweaty jogging outfit. The nuances may seem petty to the rest of us but NBC's Williams assured us that Washington DC is a "city that devours details and tea leaves" and "has been so fascinated by the new Obama style." On ABC, White House correspondent Jake Tapper filed an Obama lifestyle primer--his gym habits, his iPod playlist, his preferred breakfast, his working hours, his office thermostat setting--but his report is not available for videostreaming online.
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