A second e-mailer agrees with this complaint about holiday shopping coverage:
“Ditto to ‘the official start of the holiday shopping season.’
Dig up some footage from a few years ago and just dub in that consumers are planning to spend [more | less] this year.
Shoppers have generally been calm, although at one [Wal-Mart | mall] in [Connecticut | Texas], security had to break up a dispute over a [Tickle-Me Elmo | TMX Elmo].
In other news, [24 | 124] Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence. When we come back, more on the day known as Black Friday…”
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