From The Washington Post in a few venues: “Post columnist Dana Milbank has pledged not to write anything about Sarah Palin for one month. Would you pledge not read or watch coverage of Palin for one month?” Yes: 70%; I’ll try: 10%; No: 20% at the time Big Journalism covered the story Saturday morning.
You know, it’s one thing for editors to decide Mrs. Palin is not news-worthy in general; it’s another to declare a pledge and encourage viewers to avoid all news coverage on her, which wouldn’t work anyway and could back-fire in an embarrassing way. This looks more like fear or anger than what they say it is, which is reader interaction.
The craze continues as partisans parse and dart.
They certainly are obsessed with her. How odd it must be to live life as such a national lightning rod.
Given said obsession…can you really say this pledge is a bad thing for anyone?
It’s not like they’ll be passing up time otherwise spent praising her qualities.
Good point, and I don’t want to be harsh because I think it’s funny how much they make of her comments in the news. If I were an editor, I’d probably push back on citing her opinions so often, but then if I were an editor, I would do or want to do many things differently than the appearance of today’s newsroom people.