NBC Evening News with Chuck Scarborough 5/5/08

Tagline: "We're for New York"

This is a more localized version of Brian William's show, still featuring a recognizable news anchor, Chuck Scarborough (white male) and a black male weathercaster.

• Congressman Vito Fosella apologizes for driving drunk and getting arrested. He didn't stop at a red light and had double the legal BAC limit. A white female correspondent reported. "I regret that what I did occurred. It was a learning process."


• There is a nursing home strike underway at the Kingsbridge Center, which is $3 million behind on paying health insurance to its employees (mostly black, some Hispanic talking to white female correspondent.) Jacob Purlez, president of the organization (Hispanic male) declined to be on camera but issued a statement.


• Another story on the Uma Thurman stalker case.


• A transit plan as solution to high volumes of traffic by reopening an old out of use train station. It is to be the centerpiece of a transit village with a new bus service. Greg Sergold (white male) reporting, talking to people of different races about why they are not happy about the plans.


• Mentioned the family leave act that governor Corzine signed into law, going into effect July 09.


• NJ Catholic Priest Monsiginor Will McCarthy was cleared of child abuse charges 15 years after they were brought up against him. Black female correspondent interviewed the priest, who lives in East Hanover and is writing a book about his experiences. This was a bit of a lengthy profile piece.


• Pfizer made a deal to settle Celebrex lawsuits and will pay half a billion dollars to families affected.


• David Usher (black male) reproting on the closing of Linens and Things, the rising cost of Wawa coffee, and how the economic stimulus checks are causing buisnesses to have special deals for anyoner spending that money there.


• A piece on deaths in Oklahoma due to tornados and showing damage caused by huge hailstones.


• Personal computers went on sale in Cuba for the first time ever. Also, only recently were Cubans allowed to have cell phones and stay in luxury hotels. Fidel's brother is trying to ease the Communist grip on the citizens.


• British scientists have done a study showing that the computer keyboards in several offices had 5 times more germs and bacteria than the toilet seats in the bathroom.

I noticed here that this program featured the most minority groups of the ones I had seen thus far. Like the other programs however the people they spoke to ou on the street were mostly white. Also, the main focus of this and several of the other news programs is on the economy, not on war or crime. Money related stories are proving to be very popular.