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TYNDALL HEADLINE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM APRIL 01, 2011
Libya's four-day streak as Story of the Day was broken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly release of data on the state of the job market. ABC and CBS, with substitute anchor Erica Hill, both led with the improving unemployment picture. March was the 13th straight month in which private sector hiring had increased and the unemployment rate has fallen to a still-devastating 8.8%. NBC kept its focus on Libya, leading with Jim Maceda's report from Tripoli, a city buzzing with rumors that Moammar Khadafy's regime may fail: he is so spooked by the prospect of defections that all major government officials are now shadowed by a minder.
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NOW HIRING: THOSE NOT CURRENTLY EMPLOYED NEED NOT APPLY Libya's four-day streak as Story of the Day was broken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly release of data on the state of the job market. ABC and CBS, with substitute anchor Erica Hill, both led with the improving unemployment picture. March was the 13th straight month in which private sector hiring had increased and the unemployment rate has fallen to a still-devastating 8.8%. NBC kept its focus on Libya, leading with Jim Maceda's report from Tripoli, a city buzzing with rumors that Moammar Khadafy's regime may fail: he is so spooked by the prospect of defections that all major government officials are now shadowed by a minder.
Each of the three newscasts chose a different angle on the unemployment report: ABC's Matt Gutman chose the positive, showing new hiring in Florida; CBS' Anthony Mason chose the negative, with employers going out of their way not to offer work to the long-term unemployed: Those Not Currently Employed Need Not Apply. Here at Tyndall Report, we encourage the explainer as a format. John Yang did a neat job at NBC laying out the methodology at the BLS, concluding with the depressing insight that this improving jobs statistic is an artifact of the lowest rate of participation in the labor force in more than a quarter of a century.
FRIDAY FINDINGS NBC News Military Analyst Barry McCaffrey came loaded with soundbites for his q&a with anchor Brian Williams on Libya…
…The stated policy of protecting civilians against military attack is Bizarroland; the "hope" that Moammar Khadafy will agree to leave is a strategy that does not work well "in birth control or military operations"
The storyline of the Arab Spring is being kept alive at NBC as Ron Allen files the latest in his network's series of regional round-ups
Mazar-i-Sharif was the unlikely setting and the United Nations the unexpected target for lethal protests against the Rev Terry Jones, Florida's Koran-desecrating Christian preacher…
…ABC's Nick Schifrin was in Kabul as his colleague Bill Weir landed the Jones soundbite for Nightline. CBS' Kelly Cobiella narrated from London
How to make a dynamic story out of federal highway statistics? On CBS, Jim Axelrod allowed Consumer Reports to plug GM's Chevy Cruze model…
…On ABC, Lisa Stark juiced up (and ignored) the data the old-fashioned way. Watch her smash-'em-up crash video--with no mention of the actual death toll
By the way, Axelrod's colleague Ben Tracy, earlier in the CBS newscast, indirectly helped GM too, telling us about higher prices and lower availability of Japanese auto imports
Dr Hawa Abdi was honored by Glamour Magazine last November and recently by The Daily Beast's Tina Brown…
…CBS' Michelle Miller, then, and ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, now, tell Abdi's story. Watch and you will be told plenty about inspiration and precious little about Somalia
Each of the three newscasts chose a different angle on the unemployment report: ABC's Matt Gutman chose the positive, showing new hiring in Florida; CBS' Anthony Mason chose the negative, with employers going out of their way not to offer work to the long-term unemployed: Those Not Currently Employed Need Not Apply. Here at Tyndall Report, we encourage the explainer as a format. John Yang did a neat job at NBC laying out the methodology at the BLS, concluding with the depressing insight that this improving jobs statistic is an artifact of the lowest rate of participation in the labor force in more than a quarter of a century.
FRIDAY FINDINGS NBC News Military Analyst Barry McCaffrey came loaded with soundbites for his q&a with anchor Brian Williams on Libya…
…The stated policy of protecting civilians against military attack is Bizarroland; the "hope" that Moammar Khadafy will agree to leave is a strategy that does not work well "in birth control or military operations"
The storyline of the Arab Spring is being kept alive at NBC as Ron Allen files the latest in his network's series of regional round-ups
Mazar-i-Sharif was the unlikely setting and the United Nations the unexpected target for lethal protests against the Rev Terry Jones, Florida's Koran-desecrating Christian preacher…
…ABC's Nick Schifrin was in Kabul as his colleague Bill Weir landed the Jones soundbite for Nightline. CBS' Kelly Cobiella narrated from London
How to make a dynamic story out of federal highway statistics? On CBS, Jim Axelrod allowed Consumer Reports to plug GM's Chevy Cruze model…
…On ABC, Lisa Stark juiced up (and ignored) the data the old-fashioned way. Watch her smash-'em-up crash video--with no mention of the actual death toll
By the way, Axelrod's colleague Ben Tracy, earlier in the CBS newscast, indirectly helped GM too, telling us about higher prices and lower availability of Japanese auto imports
Dr Hawa Abdi was honored by Glamour Magazine last November and recently by The Daily Beast's Tina Brown…
…CBS' Michelle Miller, then, and ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, now, tell Abdi's story. Watch and you will be told plenty about inspiration and precious little about Somalia
