Happy talk meets the Evening News Part 2

ABC has announced that Charles Gibson will take over as ABC World News Tonight new permanent anchor. Gibson is currently a co-host on Good Morning America.

Report

Once again the brains over at a major braodcast network have turned to the long time host of their morning news program to take over the evening news anchor slot.

As with Katie Couric, Gibson has in the past decade or more been less of a journalist and more of a TV personality. They've both proven to be accomplished at the "Happy Talk" style of presentation required for those Mornign news programs. They're journalistic skills are less in evidence.

With this second annoucement I think we can all acknowledge that the day when the network news anchor got the job because they were a respected serious journalist. It's all about personality and ratings.

Cheerul patter and toothy smiles are the order of the day.

•  It's just so they can properly

  report all the happy news the bushitas wants us to hear!
  Smile pretty :)

  by dansk47 on Tue May 23, 2006 at 08:25:15 AM PDT

•  Does anyone known

  how much of the news is determined by the anchor?  I get the notion that the anchor of today is just the person reading the news.  How well they report doesn't really matter so much.

  by deathsinger on Tue May 23, 2006 at 08:25:32 AM PDT

•  Blow dried meat puppets. n/t

  by daulton on Tue May 23, 2006 at 08:25:37 AM PDT

•  Tips?

  Or not.

  Happy Happy.

  by Muwarr90 on Tue May 23, 2006 at 08:28:56 AM PDT