Worst. Debate. Ever.
Apr. 17th, 2008 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerI don't have much to add to the "circling the bowl" nature of last night's exercise in gossip column-ism masquerading as a "debate" on ABC. "Despicable" is as good a word as any. One reporter noted that it took fifty-two minutes for the moderator to actually get around to a policy question.
ABC Criticized for Handling of Democratic Debate - Newsday - 17 Apr 08
"'In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in Philadelphia,' Huffington Post analyst Greg Mitchell wrote on the site Thursday. 'They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.'"
"[Tom] Shales wrote [in the Washington Post] that the two 'usually dependable anchors' -- Gibson and Stephanopoulos -- 'turned in shoddy, despicable performances.'"
ABC Criticized for Handling of Democratic Debate - Newsday - 17 Apr 08
"'In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in Philadelphia,' Huffington Post analyst Greg Mitchell wrote on the site Thursday. 'They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.'"
"[Tom] Shales wrote [in the Washington Post] that the two 'usually dependable anchors' -- Gibson and Stephanopoulos -- 'turned in shoddy, despicable performances.'"
