Blogtalk: Bloggers Turn Up Heat on ABC
By Ariel Alexovich
New York Times
The Caucus
The major gripe among the blogosphere today: ABC News spent way, way too much time drilling Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama about their stumbles on the campaign trail instead of focusing on policy issues.
Bloggers at the liberal Daily Kos (which has a heavy Obama following) dedicated the most electronic ink against ABC’s Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the debate moderators.
One of the writers, Hunter, went so far as to say their handling of the debate was “so deeply embarrassing to the nation that it will be pointed to, in future books and documentary works, as a prime example of the collapse of the American media into utter and complete substanceless, into self-celebrated vapidity, and into a now-complete inability or unwillingness to cover the most important affairs of the nation to any but the most shallow of depths.”
Harsh.
“Congratulations are clearly in order,” he goes on. “ABC had two hours of access to two of the three remaining candidates vying to lead the most powerful nation in the world, and spent the decided majority of that time mining what the press considers the true issues facing the republic. Bittergate; Rev. Wright; Bosnia; American flag lapel pins.”
“I’m a bit stunned,” writes Joe Sudbay of AmericaBlog. “The questions were literally right out of right wing talk radio.”
And right now you can read (um, if you have a few days) some 14,000 comments posted to the ABC News online story about the debate. Very few are polite.
(Continued here.)
New York Times
The Caucus
The major gripe among the blogosphere today: ABC News spent way, way too much time drilling Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama about their stumbles on the campaign trail instead of focusing on policy issues.
Bloggers at the liberal Daily Kos (which has a heavy Obama following) dedicated the most electronic ink against ABC’s Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the debate moderators.
One of the writers, Hunter, went so far as to say their handling of the debate was “so deeply embarrassing to the nation that it will be pointed to, in future books and documentary works, as a prime example of the collapse of the American media into utter and complete substanceless, into self-celebrated vapidity, and into a now-complete inability or unwillingness to cover the most important affairs of the nation to any but the most shallow of depths.”
Harsh.
“Congratulations are clearly in order,” he goes on. “ABC had two hours of access to two of the three remaining candidates vying to lead the most powerful nation in the world, and spent the decided majority of that time mining what the press considers the true issues facing the republic. Bittergate; Rev. Wright; Bosnia; American flag lapel pins.”
“I’m a bit stunned,” writes Joe Sudbay of AmericaBlog. “The questions were literally right out of right wing talk radio.”
And right now you can read (um, if you have a few days) some 14,000 comments posted to the ABC News online story about the debate. Very few are polite.
(Continued here.)
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