Mindlessly following Palin tour does the media no favors
ELISE PATKOTAK
Anchorage DailyNews
Published: June 7th, 2011 08:07 PM
Last Modified: June 7th, 2011 08:07 PM
First, Sarah Palin makes the term "lamestream media" her own, then she goes and proves they really are. And the lamestream media is right there helping her by acting like a bunch of buffoons. Like summer movies, the coverage being provided of Palin's summer vacation is vacuous and forgettable -- it is, as the Bard would say, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Sarah Palin has truly become a puppet master. She pulls the strings and the media reacts. She goes on some inane bus tour in which she stops every so often to give 20 or 30 minutes of photographed reverence to some icon of America and the mainstream media swoons with delight. Apparently, having a Palin story lead off your newscast is a surer draw than the latest photo of Rep. Weiner's ... underwear.
I have to guess that Palin is laughing her way across the country as she watches the media that so excoriated her during her vice presidential run now clamoring to know where she's going and what she's doing. They hang on her every word. She is a tease of the nth degree and they can't seem to get enough of it. It is a fully dysfunctional relationship being writ large against the palette of a summer in which the media seems to have, once again, collectively lost its mind.
This whole frenzy reminds me of the craziness that surrounded Monica Lewinski and her little blue dress with its big stain. But at least back then there really wasn't much else to report. Clinton was midway through a second term of fairly prosperous years as president. We were at relative peace. We were building a budget surplus. No one had attacked America's shores yet. Y2K was a drama only just unfolding. And Osama bin Laden's name was known only to those closely following the path that extremists were taking to our shores. In short, we had time to devote to something as stupid and distasteful as who was doing what to whom where in the White House.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/06/07/1904525/mindlessly-following-palin-tour.html
Anchorage DailyNews
Published: June 7th, 2011 08:07 PM
Last Modified: June 7th, 2011 08:07 PM
First, Sarah Palin makes the term "lamestream media" her own, then she goes and proves they really are. And the lamestream media is right there helping her by acting like a bunch of buffoons. Like summer movies, the coverage being provided of Palin's summer vacation is vacuous and forgettable -- it is, as the Bard would say, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Sarah Palin has truly become a puppet master. She pulls the strings and the media reacts. She goes on some inane bus tour in which she stops every so often to give 20 or 30 minutes of photographed reverence to some icon of America and the mainstream media swoons with delight. Apparently, having a Palin story lead off your newscast is a surer draw than the latest photo of Rep. Weiner's ... underwear.
I have to guess that Palin is laughing her way across the country as she watches the media that so excoriated her during her vice presidential run now clamoring to know where she's going and what she's doing. They hang on her every word. She is a tease of the nth degree and they can't seem to get enough of it. It is a fully dysfunctional relationship being writ large against the palette of a summer in which the media seems to have, once again, collectively lost its mind.
This whole frenzy reminds me of the craziness that surrounded Monica Lewinski and her little blue dress with its big stain. But at least back then there really wasn't much else to report. Clinton was midway through a second term of fairly prosperous years as president. We were at relative peace. We were building a budget surplus. No one had attacked America's shores yet. Y2K was a drama only just unfolding. And Osama bin Laden's name was known only to those closely following the path that extremists were taking to our shores. In short, we had time to devote to something as stupid and distasteful as who was doing what to whom where in the White House.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/06/07/1904525/mindlessly-following-palin-tour.html
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