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Monday in Elkhart Ind, Tuesday in Fort Myers Fla: "This is foreclosure country," announced NBC's Savannah Guthrie as she accompanied Barack Obama on his second out-of-town trip in two days. The President is focusing on "areas where the economic pain is extreme," observed CBS' Chip Reid, citing a foreclosure rate in Fort Myers of one in every eight homes, with 10% unemployment. ABC skipped coverage by its White House correspondent, filing clips from a q-&-a by the network's former man on that beat, Terry Moran, now anchor for Nightline. Moran asked Obama whether his public warnings about economic catastrophe were too dire. "I am constantly trying to thread the needle between sounding alarmist but also letting the American people know the circumstances that we are in." Next he was asked whether his political tone was too nice, especially to Republicans: "People should not underestimate the value of civility and trying to get people to work together."
The most newsworthy soundbite from Obama's first Presidential primetime press conference concerned diplomacy with Iran. ABC's Jim Sciutto in Teheran covered Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's response but that videostream is not available online.
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