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Only CBS had a reporter file a follow-up to the story that dominated the news all five weekdays last week--te $165m in bonuses paid to the traders at AIG whose recklessness forced the insurance conglomerate into near-nationalization. Dean Reynolds traveled to Peoria to find vox pop soundbites to illustrate a CBS News opinion poll on the bonus scandal. AIG "is at the tip of the spear of dissatisfaction," Reynolds told us. "Americans apparently want a harder line" against the millionaire recipients. The poll showed that fully 57% of the population had been "paying a lot of attention to the AIG case"--no surprise considering its ubiquity in the headlines. Reynolds added that allowing the bonuses to go ahead has been the first policy initiative of Barack Obama's young Presidency to attract more public disapproval than approval.
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