Posted on 09/12/2008 1:03:36 PM PDT by MindBender26
He acted very condescending, like she was a child and he the adult. It was very insulting.....
>>>>That was nice. What is the source?
Old friends with a fully charged cell phone battery, my phone number and one too many Scotches at lunch.
:~)
I really PO’d ABC didnt go after Palin for eating live kittens!
I have to admit, I used to really like Charlie Gibson but after last night’s performance my opinion has been significantly lowered. I will be going out of my way to avoid him, now...and that’s sad.
He only succeeded in making himself much smaller than the esteem I once held for him and dozens of people are telling me the same thing. Wait until he gets back from Alaska to see how much the lower 48 has cooled (to him).
When I took Newswriting (At both Newhouse and Annenberg), the key was Objectivity. Somehow, someway, cute, sarcastic pot shots has replaced honor among these Gen X’ers and Tweeners. This just goes to show you that playing Grand Theft Auto 15 hours a week does not contribute to the civility of our national discourse.
Please provide their names and their affiliations. This article contains no sources.
As such, it can't be taken seriously.
And Pilosi says they want to instill a "Fairness Doctrine....."
The Fairness Doctrine would make sense if journalism were objective. But the conceit of journalistic objectivity would have struck the founding fathers as ridiculous, for the simple reason that newspapers of the day were cacophony of competing opinion, with hardly any news which was entirely unknown to the public at the time of printing.The conceit of journalistic objectivity derives solely from the commercial imperatives of the Associated Press and its member newspapers, and it is the propaganda power of the AP and its members alone which provides that conceit with what passes for its basis in fact. The conceit of journalistic objectivity is baseless in fact, and politically it is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.
Nice article.
We can assume that Gibson was operating under intense pressure to harass and provoke Gov. Palin in the hope of leading her into a gaffe. When no such moment emerged, ABC simply pretended Palin’s accurate summary of NATO’s responsibilities towards Georgia as a hypothetical member was warmongering. Still, pressure or no pressure, Gibson was certainly under no obligation to greet Palin with insinuating questions, false quotes and visible sneers. No doubt the scales fell from the eyes of a few more old media viewers after that performance.
The lefties in old media believes that it is their privilege to do so. That is why talk radio and the Internet are such an important balance against them.
I suspect you meant "palpable."
Turned him off years ago.
Why, Charlie? Why?
“That’s not the Charlie Gibson I knew”
Gibson’s dripping condescension was disgusting.
>>>> Please provide their names and their affiliations.
Sources burned cease to be sources.
>>>> As such, it can’t be taken seriously.
Then don’t
Do you know if Charles Gibson is aware of being held in contempt by some viewers and colleagues?
It is the same as if I said...”Let us all pray that we are doing good and right and in accord with God's plan”.... and they edited it down to...... “We are doing good and right and in accord with God's plan”..... and then represented THAT as an ‘exact quote’.
LUDICROUS!
He also tried to pen her into making the ‘Obama Iwanna Obomb A Pakistan’ mistake. When she gave a “diplomatic” answer (what is required in such a circumstance) he pulled his “I got lost in a blizzard of words, was that a yes or no.”
Can you name one other male in journalism today who would go out of his way like Charlie did to make Katie Couric look like a competent journalist?
As a Charlie myself, I have to say that the condescending Gibson was a disgrace to the League of Charlies. At our next meeting, we will no doubt vote to demote him to a “Chuck.”
You are so right.
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