An open letter to Charles Gibson of ABC ...

Mr. Gibson,

 

During the 2008 US Presidential Election Campaign, I along with many in the United States tuned into your employer's network to view one of the Presidential Candidate debates.

 

Like many, I was appalled and dismayed by the quality of questions being asked.  Indeed, I wasn't the only one who thought so. Evidently some of your peers in the media drew the same conclusion.

 

With the country in the midst of several gripping financial issues, voters in the election chose to reject the policies of the last 8 years that got us into these messes. They elected someone to come up with plans to clean up these messes.

 

Now, no one is asking you to give the new President preferential treatment. After all, the opposite seems to be the pattern when Democratic Presidential Candidates assume office now, isn't it?

 

And of course, you work for ABC, where it's clear, two of your colleagues, cannot even get the most basic information correct - here and here.

 

 

But after watching how the media has handled coverage of the proposed economic stimulus package - and how the media have largely allowed the Republican Party to dominate the airwaves with their diatribes I've come to one specific conclusion -

 

I've had enough of your broadcasts.

 

So, please do everyone a favor and stop.

 

Retire. Quit. Or just walk off the set and don't come back. Take your pick.

 

 

Someone on your Wikipedia entry claimed you to be 'very affable', but frankly I have never bought into that. Indeed, you never ever seem to be happy at all.

 

I'm sick of your smug arrogance, and your inability to get over the fact that the Republican Party lost the 2008 elections, and that for whatever reason, ABC won't let you leave.

 

Watching you and your network allow yourself and corporate media outlets to get even the most basic issues about the proposed Obama economic stimulus wrong is bad enough. But even after being repeatedly corrected, you still spout falsehoods on your broadcast.

 

No, it goes beyond that, as it this irresponsible behavior on the part of the corporate media is business as usual.

 

I have found you to be completely insufferable - you and your program are neither informative, or entertaining.

 

Honestly the only good thing about your broadcasts, is the pleasure in turning the television off knowing -

 

• it's time to eat dinner
  
• that you are able once again unable to hide your absolute contempt for the new Obama Government or promote honest, objective journalism
  
• that anyone who decides to continue to tune into you will continue to be misinformed about the events that shape our lives
  
• and that I can get more reliable, objective news elsewhere.