The Ghost of RubangB on 14 September 2008
| rocketpig said: I've put more thought into this and there's one thing that really bothers me: Right now, Sarah Palin is the most popular woman in the country. This was her first public interview. Think about that for a moment. People are rabid to get any and all info they can on her. Why was this interview edited AT ALL? The edit either involves partisan mischief or gross incompetence by ABC. Take your pick. You get an interview with a woman as wildly popular as Palin, you don't edit it down for time constraints. You turn it into a feature piece. |
Yeah it shouldn't have been edited at all.
I think on the editor's part, it was due to time constraints, but I bet somebody else in charge got that tape and was very happy with the change in tone. I would've made some of the same edits, since both Gibson and Palin were repeating themselves, and I think some of the edits were good for Palin and some were bad for Palin.
Very sloppy editing, but not as bad as the editing of McCain's answer.
I almost always prefer to read interviews.
