Monday, September 15, 2008

Lost on the Rude-Tube

ABC News anchor Charles Gibson may have thought he was giving a fair but “tough” interview to Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, in the first press contact with the new vice-presidential candidate.

But ABC did itself no favors. Viewers watching the dagger-and-sheath interview — aired on national television last night and endlessly replayed on “YouTube” — could easily draw a different conclusion.

Unconsciously or not, Gibson’s manner and language fairly dripped with condescension and disbelief.

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