Wednesday Night's News 2/4/09

 

2/4/09

 

Wall Street salaries and the President’s plan to cap them was the first story on each of the three newscasts. Anthony Mason on CBS pointed out the salary caps are not retroactive and Chuck Todd on NBC said that execs could take bonuses in stock but they couldn’t sell stuff until the government was paid off. And all say there is no Senatorial Consensus on the stimulus bill.

 

So President Obama is meeting with centrists of both parties. Lisa Stark at ABC listed some of the controversial items:  $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, money for global warming studies, money to fight sexually transmitted diseases, and eco-aware cars for government employees. Everybody knows those issues drive the wingnuts crazy and that should have been taken into account when the bill was drafted. From the beginning, Dems should have used the bill’s actual title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. A lot of the controversial provisions will be lost in the conference committee meetings where a final bill will be written. Yes, there are philosophical disagreements but it’s all going to go away soon and the bill will be passed. Since that’s the case, I wonder if all this sturm and drang is worth the reporting time given to it.

 

CBS, for some reason had a long interview with McCain, who said he appreciated the President’s attempts at bipartisanship, but the bill is just a Democratic spending frenzy with no stimulative effect.  McCain’s even against things he was advocating when he was running. He was for expanding broadband before he was against it.

 

You would have to watch all three shows to find these things out: Cheney gave an interview to Politico and said people are going to die. A delay to June for digital television has been passed by the House. They were against it before they were for it. One job that’s in no danger of going away is cleaning houses. Cleaning foreclosed houses. 

 

Investigators found and confiscated $950-million of Madoff’s loot. And there’s new activity in the case of the Tylenol poisoning in 1982. Other medical wonders include Bob Bazell telling Brian about robo-surgery using computer models and John McKenzie saying a lady’s liver cancer might have been beaten by direct, high-dose chemo.

 

On the feature segments there a little golfer kid (CBS), Google Latitude can track you anywhere (ABC) and pythons are taking over the Florida Keys (NBC). Since all the oranges down there have frozen it probably doesn’t matter.

Posted by Jon Ward at 2/5/2009 5:31 PM
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