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NBC offered us the First Family. Tom Costello used a soundbite from the hula-hooping First Lady encouraging us to eat our vegetables for his report on a looming crackdown by the Food & Drug Administration on the packaged food industry. The Smart Choices label, with its green check mark logo, is turning up on food that fails to pass nutritious muster. Costello singled out Fruit Loops cereals, frozen dinners and Fudgesicles.
Savannah Guthrie sat down with the President to continue her network's A Woman's Nation series. She asked about stereotypical gender roles played by Barack and Michelle. "If the kids get sick why is it that she is the one who has to take time off of her job to go pick them up from school as opposed to me?" Mr Obama asked rhetorically. "Men are still a little obtuse about this stuff and need to be knocked across the head every once in a while."
NBC was so preoccupied with Maria Shriver's feminist project that Guthrie got in only a passing mention about Afghanistan. Nancy Snyderman followed up with a feature that contradicted Shriver's findings of a new equality between the genders. Snyderman listed how women routinely get the short end of the stick: they spend most time providing unpaid care for elderly family members; are most likely to suffer chronic illnesses as a result; often have to pay more for their own health insurance; and are more likely than men to go bankrupt because they get sick.
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