CNN, NBC and ABC All Dump Top Boss

Oddly coincidental announcements today signal that Jeff Zucker is out at NBC, Jon Klein is out at CNN and this follows news a few weeks ago that David Westin is "resigning" as president of ABC News. Apparently, they were all pushed out for failing to maintain President Obama's popularity above 40%.

Actually, the stations did not cite failure to make the presidents policies palatable as a reason for the executive being shown the door. However, they did not deny it either. Using media standards, failure to deny is same as confirmation.

Charlie Gibson's "Are We Fighting a Holy War" moment

A week or so ago, Gov. Palin sat for a one on one interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC. During the interview Gibson ambushed Palin with a partial quote of a speech she gave that completely changed the meaning of her words. Here is a link to a video from Newt Gingrich that shows what her real complete quote was and includes similar quotes from Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, FDR, and Abraham Lincoln. Gibson needs to either admit he was being duplicitous or that he screwed up and was misled regarding the quote and failed to verify the context. If he is unwilling to do that then ABC has a responsibility to take action.