ABC News was loser at debate

debategibson.jpgCharlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos “turned in shoddy, despicable performances” hosting last night’s Democratic debate, wrote Washington Post media critic Tom Shales. “For the first 52 minutes of the two-hour, commercial-crammed show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.”