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In late October, ABC’s World News Tonight spend 16 seconds teasing how the price for your Thanksgiving dinner was going to increase in anticipation of the fuller picture that would show itself as the holiday drew closer. But with the price of turkey up 20 percent, other meats up 11.9 percent, and fuel up 50 percent, ABC was nowhere to be seen while CBS Evening News was touring a turkey farm on Monday and NBC Nightly News was chatting with the president of a grocery store chain.
“To the index, tonight and what will be a more expensive Thanksgiving this year,” announced ABC anchor David Muir on October 26. “Economists pointing to supply, transportation, and labor shortages. Every part of dinner expected to cost more from the turkey to dessert. Prices for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs up 10 percent in some places over last year.”
While Muir has not brought up the cost of Thanksgiving since, CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell trekked out to a turkey farm in Maryland and declared it the most expensive Thanksgiving ever.
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