Photo credits: Donna Svennik / ABC/ APNo one can argue that Sarah Palin’s interview on 9/11 with ABC’s Charles Gibson didn’t get adequate press coverage. Time Magazine offers two views: first from Nancy Gibbs and then from James Poniewozik.
Gibbs begins:
“On a day when people paused and prayed, when Barack Obama joined John McCain at ground zero and made peace with Bill Clinton over lunch, when the ads were stilled and the e-mails sheathed just for a while, GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin held a peace conference of her own with the mainstream media when she sat down with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson in Fairbanks, Alaska.
‘“Gibson, gentleman journalist, was not about to field-dress Palin before a national television audience, but at times he seemed to be trying. They were sitting practically toe-to-toe, and there was no forced conviviality. From the very beginning, he pushed her on her credentials, her experience, her "hubris" in thinking she was qualified to be Vice President. "I'm ready," she shot back, and when he asked again whether she had hesitated at all before accepting McCain's offer of a place on the ticket, she made it clear that her son was not the only one heading off to war. ‘You can't blink,’ she said. ‘You have to be wired in a way, of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war — you can't blink.’”
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Poniewozik writes:
“For the past few days, the entire world has been offering Charles Gibson unsolicited advice on how to interview Sarah Palin. I've done enough bad interviews in my day that I can hardly imagine handling one in front of an audience of a million kibitzers. So I'll spare you (and Gibson) my two cents on which followup I would have asked here and how I would have phrased this question there.
“In all, Gibson's first interview with Palin proved wrong those who thought either that he would offer up a volley of softballs, or spring a name-the-heads-of-state quiz to try to gin up embarrassing moments. (Of course, the World News segment was on foreign policy, so it didn't provide much opportunity to get into hot-button campaign questions; he still has another day to bring up "lipstick on a pig" if he chooses to.) Instead, Gibson interviewed her — imagine this — the way you might a candidate for Vice President whom people still know very little about.”
Gibbs begins:
“On a day when people paused and prayed, when Barack Obama joined John McCain at ground zero and made peace with Bill Clinton over lunch, when the ads were stilled and the e-mails sheathed just for a while, GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin held a peace conference of her own with the mainstream media when she sat down with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson in Fairbanks, Alaska.
‘“Gibson, gentleman journalist, was not about to field-dress Palin before a national television audience, but at times he seemed to be trying. They were sitting practically toe-to-toe, and there was no forced conviviality. From the very beginning, he pushed her on her credentials, her experience, her "hubris" in thinking she was qualified to be Vice President. "I'm ready," she shot back, and when he asked again whether she had hesitated at all before accepting McCain's offer of a place on the ticket, she made it clear that her son was not the only one heading off to war. ‘You can't blink,’ she said. ‘You have to be wired in a way, of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war — you can't blink.’”
Read more.
Poniewozik writes:
“For the past few days, the entire world has been offering Charles Gibson unsolicited advice on how to interview Sarah Palin. I've done enough bad interviews in my day that I can hardly imagine handling one in front of an audience of a million kibitzers. So I'll spare you (and Gibson) my two cents on which followup I would have asked here and how I would have phrased this question there.
“In all, Gibson's first interview with Palin proved wrong those who thought either that he would offer up a volley of softballs, or spring a name-the-heads-of-state quiz to try to gin up embarrassing moments. (Of course, the World News segment was on foreign policy, so it didn't provide much opportunity to get into hot-button campaign questions; he still has another day to bring up "lipstick on a pig" if he chooses to.) Instead, Gibson interviewed her — imagine this — the way you might a candidate for Vice President whom people still know very little about.”
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