Posted on 12/14/2009 10:40:58 AM PST by Justaham
Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz presented quite a paradox in a Charlie Gibson profile Monday. The retiring ABC World News anchor said that "it’s time to move on" since objectivity is "less of a marketable commodity." But Kurtz also underlined how Gibson dared to keep airing live coverage of Ted Kennedy’s funeral until they were able to broadcast the reading of Ted Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict. These passages came late in the article:
Gibson worries whether broadcast networks will be able to support sizable editorial staffs in an era of declining audiences, when cable news channels are louder -- and more profitable. "Objectivity -- or the extent to which we strive for objectivity -- is less of a marketable commodity," he says. "People seem to want to hear news presented according to their own beliefs, and I don't understand that."
"I'm so much of a traditional, over-the-air broadcaster. I'm aware that it's changing, and I'm not adapting fast enough with it. Having hit the perfect arc of this business, I think it's time to move on."
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that the guy with the thick reading glasses and the smug look in his face?
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Charlie.
Puffing or fluffing?
He’s leaving because he lacks the (unfounded) credibility of his predecessors, and is getting his head handed to him in the ratings.
Good riddance. I’ll never forgive Gibson for the way he treated Sarah Palin. Buh Bye!!
Does Charlie actually think he was objective?
“since objectivity is ‘less of a marketable commodity.’”
?????? What would he know about that?
The time to leave would have been BEFORE he sold out his objectivity.
or the extent to which we strive for objectivity
Huh? Just what am I supposed to understand from that statement Charlie?
...and then this!
“People seem to want to hear news presented according to their own beliefs, and I don’t understand that.”
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, so you don’t think truth, objectivity, fact checking, common sense, and reality, have anything do do with what people want in news?
Translation: Charlie Gibson wonders whether the triceratops will outlive the brontosaurus or vice versa....
LLS
This is a little tough to take coming from the pompous SOB who sat in a chair looming over Sarah and looking down at her through his professorial glasses as he played gotcha throughout their entire interview. He can retire to hell for all I care.
All one has to do is read the transcripts of his interviews with recent Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates to see just how “objective” Gibson was.
Not so much that as so called journalists want to present the news according to their own beliefs.
Sorry, Charlie. Time to go.
I have a message for the odumbo/dnc mouthpiece. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
What will he do next week?
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