Sarah Palin Sarah Palin Goes After Bloggers – Not a Wise Idea
By Ben Cohen
Sarah Palin has been attacking the blogosphere and journalism in general for their interest in Trig Palin's birth details. Here's what she told Esquire:
Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me….I'll tell you,
yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask –
double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom. And I
said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not
believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the
way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more
indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."
In all honesty, Palin is probably right about this. The media's obsession with Trig Palin's birth details is silly and most likely completely unfounded. However, Palin has not been forthcoming about the issue, which has only fanned the flames. Attacking bloggers is also unwise, a strategy that almost guarantees confrontation in a war she simply cannot win.
Palin is an easy target, unable to deal with serious media scrutiny and ill equipped to match wits with clever web publishers. Whoever is managing her needs to tell her to keep a lid on it, or she will unleash another hailstorm that could derail whatever political ambition she has left.
By Ben Cohen
Sarah Palin has been attacking the blogosphere and journalism in general for their interest in Trig Palin's birth details. Here's what she told Esquire:
yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask –
double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom. And I
said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not
believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the
way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more
indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."
In all honesty, Palin is probably right about this. The media's obsession with Trig Palin's birth details is silly and most likely completely unfounded. However, Palin has not been forthcoming about the issue, which has only fanned the flames. Attacking bloggers is also unwise, a strategy that almost guarantees confrontation in a war she simply cannot win.
Palin is an easy target, unable to deal with serious media scrutiny and ill equipped to match wits with clever web publishers. Whoever is managing her needs to tell her to keep a lid on it, or she will unleash another hailstorm that could derail whatever political ambition she has left.
“…Palin is probably right about this. The media’s obsession with Trig Palin’s birth details is silly and most likely completely unfounded.”
Eric Boehlert has an excellent piece about this non-story.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901130015?f=h_top
Unfortunately, it is likely to be read by only a relative few and is unlikely to get every-20-minutes coverage for a week on Fox News. Therefore, the “meeee-dja” bias and cruelty story will be the principal tale Gov. Palin will dine out on for the next four years.