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The Presidential interviews, plus the news about Tom Daschle and the stimulus bill, took up the lion's share (58%--34 min out of 58) of the three-network newshole. Each of the newscasts chose to follow up one of the past week's major domestic stories. Unemployment was the focus for NBC's Michelle Kosinski, who showed us 1200 applicants camped out through the weekend in Miami for just 35 firefighting jobs. The fastest growing sites on the worldwide web are monster.com and careerbuilder.com, she told us. ABC sent Barbara Pinto to Kentucky where the icestorm has finally melted and out-of-state utility workers have joined the effort to restore electricity. CBS' Jeff Glor found Jonathan Prater, a laid off worker at the closed Peanut Corporation of America processing plant in Georgia. The factory is believed to be the source of a salmonella outbreak that killed eight. Prater told him of an infestation of cockroaches in the plant and, one time, "a rat was dry-roasted in the peanuts."
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