Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lean about the world

How embarrassing must it be to be ABC News (my guess is that they're not embarrassed at all, which is even worse). Yesterday, on World News Tonight, Charlie Gibson reported two things.

One, Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, was located and safe and back from a hiking adventure on the Appalachian Trail. Of course, we now know - and it was obvious already - that all of that was a tall tale.

And two, the newly released Nixon tapes show a strong leader and a doting father, highlighting fulsome praise by Bob Hope and John Ford. That's not how a decent person would describe tapes that show a vile racist who believes that abortions are warranted for interracial pregnancies.

To assume that ABC News is doing a bad job understanding the significance of events is, I think, giving them much too much credit. I guess that tells me something about Charlie Gibson and ABC News.

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