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The publicity blitz by Chesley Sullenberger and his crew from USAirways Flight 1549 qualified as Story of the Day. Sullenberger had ended his silence with the news media by granting an exclusive to CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday. Now the floodgates are open and it is all Sully all the time. Yet the recapitulation of the icy crash landing of his jetliner into the Hudson River last month was not exactly news so the networks reserved their feelgood features for the second half of their newscasts. ABC led with another exclusive, from ESPN, its sibling sports channel in the Disney media empire, in which baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez confessed to cheating. NBC and CBS both led with hard news as Barack Obama went on the road to campaign for fiscal stimulus legislation.

All three White House correspondents accompanied the President to Elkhart Ind, a town that was until recently the thriving center of the recreational vehicle manufacturing business. RV sales have slumped; plants have closed; and the unemployment rate in the county now stands at 15%. The message Obama's team wanted to communicate was that the heartland understands the urgency of the economic crisis even if some in Congress do not.

This is what the President's unidentified aides told NBC's Chuck Todd: "This event is a chance to explain what is going on in Elkhart to a polarized Washington rather than having to explain what is going on in Congress to hurting Americans." Those aides told ABC's Jake Tapper that "Washington is always the last town to figure out what is going on in the rest of the nation." CBS' Chip Reid reported that "until recently" the White House believed Obama "could sell the stimulus from the White House." When he garnered precious little Republican support on Capitol Hill "the President decided to take his message directly to the American people."

CBS' Reid quoted Gallup Poll statistics on approval for the actors in the stimulus drama: President Obama 67%; Congressional Democrats 48%; Congressional Republicans 31%.


Andrew Tyndall 2/11/09 10:10:55 pm

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