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Both Vega and Almaguer resorted to computer animation to tell that Dorner was discovered by a couple of cleaning ladies in his hideout a stone's throw from the police command center in Big Bear. Vega's Virtual View animation on ABC showed the two women tied up on the floor of the ski-resort condo; Almaguer's on NBC depicted Dorner as being more considerate, tying them up armchairs. Are these graphic artists just making things up? Who knows? Then listen to Vega's tale of the chase after he leaves the condo in the women's car: she has Dorner hijack Rick Heltebrake's pick-up before getting into a firefight with Fish & Game wardens; listen to Almaguer and the narrative is reversed. Who knows?
So, for the second day in a row, Barack Obama's big speech was pushed into second place. NBC's White House correspondent Peter Alexander did the most old-fashioned job, and the most comprehensive one, recapping the highlights of the State of the Union. CBS took a different tack, singling out three major themes and assigning a reporter to each one: Nancy Cordes to firearms legislation, Anthony Mason to the minimum wage, and Major Garrett to manufacturing industrial policy, a beat that ABC has specialized in over the last year with its Made in America series.
Not this time: ABC's newly appointed White House correspondent Jonathan Karl picked the minimum wage angle instead. Karl worried that a hike in the wage might mean fewer jobs for teenagers. He argued that youth unemployment has risen since the last time the minimum wage was increased in 2007, tendentiously confusing correlation with causation, as if the Great Recession of 2008 had never happened.
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