Media's Treatement of Sarah Palin Not Unfair (barf alert)

The Hamilton Spectator ^ | 12/10/08 | by Allison Eck

[an amused spectator]

Plus, Dana Milbank "reports" for The Washington Post - not The New York Times...

Nice try, Allison. You flunk.

[an amused spectator]

Allison Eck: Should we dismiss our uncertainties? We should want them to be so many times smarter than we are that it's embarrassing. I cannot understand why Molfetas would say that the elected officials do not "need to know whether Africa is a country or a continent." Shouldn't we desire for our country a well-informed leader with a sense of the world so we can make progress? Not knowing fifth-grade geography is a serious problem.

Gee, Allison - "Sarah Palin went to a public school and grew up in a working class family", so it's logical to a moron like you that it might be possible that Palin doesn't know fifth-grade geography.

It just so happens that the "working class family" that Palin grew up in was headed by not one, but TWO public school teachers.

Having some familiarity with parental public school teachers (my mother was one, and we hung around with other school teacher families), I can tell you that Palin's house was probably littered with books on twenty different subjects, including geography. To say nothing of the various maps and the obligatory National Geographic subscription.

Also, the children of teachers usually have a lot of scholastic pressure put on them to excel. Seen it many times, myself.

[Cacique]

bfll

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Does a fish know he’s wet?

Don’t ask a media person if he’s objective. He assumes he is; he in actual fact has no clue.

The rules of journalism:

If it bleeds, it leads

Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man

There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper

do not speak at all to "the public interest" but to the commercial imperative that journalism must interest the public - which can be, and typically is, an entirely different matter.

But you can hardly expect a journalist to admit that to himself - let alone to you.

[Tempest]

The author is a pathetic excuse for a human being. Hence she is a journalist.