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ABC's World News dispensed with all its serious news before its first commercial. It rounded out its newscast with three pieces of fluff, each of which would have been fine for a light-hearted closer on its own. Taken together, ABC just did not seem to be treating its audience seriously.
Anchor Charles Gibson voiced over some radical surfing video from Waimea Bay on Oahu…Steve Osunsami introduced us to the puppy dog Ally, adopted by a Fort Campbell corporal on the battlefield in Afghanistan…and David Muir recapitulated the tabloid gossip mill--from Gawker to Radar Online to Good Morning America to Twitter to People--that follows "every development, traveling at lightning speed" of the tawdry travails of Tiger Woods.
Apparently the only place you will not see the golf champion, Muir noted, is next to a sponsor's product: "Nielsen reported that no TV ads featuring Tiger Woods have aired now in more than a week."
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