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This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos led off ABC's newscast with his network's own poll, conducted with Washington Post, on Barack Obama's approval. It stands at 57%, a month-over-month improvement for the first time since April. The proportion of those polled identifying themselves as Republicans is now just 20%. "This is a huge problem," Stephanopoulos suggested, noting that this is a 26-year low.
NBC also led with the President. Yet Savannah Guthrie's report from the White House was muddled and incoherent. She tried to tie popular dissatisfaction with bonuses paid to Wall Street bankers--Goldman Sachs $23bn, Citigroup $22bn, Bank of America $30bn, JP Morgan Chase $29bn--with a Democratic National Committee fundraiser being hosted by Obama at Manhattan's ritzy Mandarin Oriental Hotel. How did Guthrie yoke these two strands together? She quoted from The New York Times that a third of the attendees will be from Wall Street. How did she follow up? "Only about six executives from the big bailed out firms will be in attendance. In fact donations to Democrats from Wall Street are way down this year."
Huh?
It was not a happy newscast for NBC. Not only did its lead make no sense. It also devoted five whole minutes to Guest Editor Maria Shriver for her series A Woman's Nation. Shriver, the NBC News alumna and current First Lady of California, sat down with a focus group in Detroit to exchange anecdotes of changing gender roles. A father checks his teenage daughter's laundry…a breadwinning wife leaves the grocery shopping to her husband…a single mother does household handiwork.
So what?
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