Charles Gibson and Blogs

I enjoy the site mediabistro.com. Despite the fact it daily reports on the imminent demise of the newspaper industry, it has interesting insights into the news business at the national level, along with some occasional good gossip.

I found this post regarding Charles Gibson unusually pertinent to this forum. For those of you under 30, Charles Gibson is anchor of ABC’s nightly newscast (yes there are still network newscasts).

ABC's Charlie Gibson, not a big fan of blogs, has become the last Big 3 anchor to launch his own.

A gentleman of the Old School, Gibson, 65, says his only concern is the pretentious navel-gazing endemic to the blogosphere. Two words rarely apply there: Unexpressed thought.

"There are a lot of people who think they know things other people want to hear. I'm just not sure I'm one of them," Gibson said. "I think these things can tend to be a little self-serving and self-aggrandizing. That's my only objection to blogs. I don't know that we'll show our dirty linen, but I'll try to be as honest as I can and do a little 'value added' stuff."

He tapped his first entry out in 45 minutes. When he's too jammed up to write, he'll take a pass for that day.

"You can't be a slave to this stuff." He says he would never allow someone else do the blog under his name.

Gibson reads blogs "on occasion;" none regularly. "Is there time in the day to read these things?" He says he checks out Brian Williams' "every once in a while," and Katie Couric's about once a month.