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The G20 focus was supposed to be on the global economic slowdown but that did not stop NBC and ABC from covering domestic money worries. The news hook for Dan Harris on ABC was his own network's opinion poll on consumer behavior during the recession: 63% are spending less, including fewer restaurant meals, canceled vacations, less money on children's activities and 24% of us are "putting off a doctor's visit or medical test." On NBC, John Yang followed up on his network's lead on Monday and Tuesday, the impending bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler.
What Yang lacked was a copy editor. His statistical reporting is as clear as mud. "Nationwide new car sales fell in March for the 17th straight month--GM down 45% from the year before, Ford dropped 41%, Chrysler 39%--on track to be the worst year in nearly three decades but there is a glimmer of hope, a double digit increase from February to March."
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