CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Misery Loves Company

ABC generated its own story to lead off its newscast. Its polling unit surveyed Americans about economic anxiety and discovered it in spades. "If there is any comfort in all of this, it is comfort in numbers," suggested David Muir bleakly. He called is a "striking portrait of fear." Fully 67% of the population has cut back on spending and 70% believe that the recession will persist longer than 2010, the date Chairman Benjamin Bernanke of the Federal Reserve Board designated for resumed growth.

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