As you might expect, the networks have sent their top anchors to Gustav, and the Republican National Convention has significantly scaled back on its first night. “It’s kind of a no-brainer,” Kate O’Brian, ABC’s senior vice president, said of the decision to send Charlie Gibson to New Orleans. “Charlie goes where the big news is…. I don’t think it’s going to be looked at as a fairness issue when the Republicans are making the same decisions we are.”


