No.
since it is not possible to take her seriously as a candidate of any noteworthy accomplishment, impressive knowledge or education, since a blackout has been imposed on any substantive interviews with her, since the text of her convention speech was based on sheer mockery, rude sarcasm, dishonesty and lowest information...since i believe she was chosen on the basis of her charisma, "mooseburger stories" and appearance, and since i believe having her as vice president would be a threat to national and global security, i think the press has been doing a fine job,especially this blog.
she is a ruthless and irresponsible choice when our country is falling apart....and i hope the press is unceasing in finding out what we need to know and i certainly hope that the investigation on her cannot be stalled or manipulated.
i think she and mccain are dangerous and i certainly hope that they are defeated in this election, for all of our sakes.
(as you can see, neither the brownies or chocolate pudding yesterday have helped in any way.)

EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS VIDEO.

Very Creepy promotional video for a Wasilla Assembly of God Master’s Commission workshop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJnhRhJW35o

When you watch this video REMEMBER…this was Sarah Palin’s church for nearly her entire life.

The man in the leather jacket donning a goatee was Sarah Palin’s pastor from 1999 till 2002.

This is the same workshop that Sarah Palin is addressing in the now widely seen footage in which she talks about God’s plan for Iraq, and asks people to pray for a new oil pipeline. The pastor who introduces her in that video is the same goatee, leather jacket donning man in this video.

She continues to have close ties to this church and is involved with workshops and seminars there.

With that said, isn't there a rule of journalism regarding naming sources when putting forth ideas and opinions?

For example: I was talking to John Smith and he said (whatever it is he said).

Versus what is becoming all to frequent: I received tons of emails from life long democrats who said (whatever).

If they are to remain nameless, there should be a reason given, no? Doesn't the viewing public deserve to know whose opinion is shaping the next 10 minute segment of debate?

when we have someone so unknown to the public as sarah palin, suddenly chosen for vice president of the united states, that even kay bailey hutchison doesnt know how to comment on her, this is the kind of media scrutiny and reporting that we should expect.
by the way, if these videos about her church are legitimate, is she going to be called to denounce her pastor too?
(let us not hold our breaths.)
criticism and accountability of sarah palin now seems apparently off-limits to the press.

The question isn't were they too hard on the Governor, the question is:

1. Did they repeatedly lie about the Governor.

The ANSWER IS CLEARLY YES, all you have to do is look at the corrections pages for the NYT etc.

2. Did they treat the Governor the same as they did the other side.

Clearly they did not, Biden was praised for dumping his two Motherless children at home while he went to Washington DC and came home in the evenings, while the media went nuts questioning whether a women could possibly do the job with children.
Palin has a spouse at home, Biden didn't even have that.

The Obamas were never questioned about how a man could possibly leave two young children and noone ever reported on the health or anything else about their underage kids.

The media all sent reporters to the childrens schools, to interview their friends etc. Even went so far as oogling their underage daughters for baby bumps and asked for paternity tests for their baby with Down Syndrome. This was never done to the Obamas.

The problem the lame liberal press had is McCain trumped them. He was supposed to be the happy warrior that chose Pawlenty or Ridge and honorably lost in November so their Messiah could Command the masses.

The press got pissed when they realized, McCain was actually going to fight and not bow out gracefully as they had already written the script.
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By the way, it was also real classy of Obama to throw away 85 trash bags containing 12,000 American flags in Denver.
Luckily, the Country First McCain team rescued the flags from the trash and had boy scouts and Veterans pass them out to the everyday, small town religion clingers.

The Atlantic reported that Palins son was actually her Grandchild and she had faked her preganancy to cover for her daughter having a baby.

MSNBC reported she had campaigned for Pat Buchanan, NOT TRUE she was for Forbes.

MSNBC and the NYT reported she was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, NOT TRUE, she's been a Republican since she was 18.

MSNBC said she wants creationism taught in schools, NOT TRUE, she has said the teacher should be able to address the issue if a student asks the question.

The list goes on and on.

While the lamestream mdia can't be bothered to discover the full relationship between the Democrats PRESIDENTIAL candidate with an unrepenent terroist, an American hating pastor and the Farrakhans.

Take all of those mistakes, multiply by 10, and you'll have the treatment Obama's received this campaign season.

Somehow, I don't think the media will ever ask itself if it's been too tough on Obama.

onslow memling, This may shock you, but here is Obama talking in Oct 2007:

"I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God . . . We’re going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."

Ahh, Obamas gonna create Gods Kingdom right here on Earth...does that make you feel better?
By the way, can WE create Gods Kingdom? I also thought it was God that was going to do that...but maybe Obama is standing in for him...

Or this is always a good Obama talk with God:
Jul 2008
""Lord,
Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair.
Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just.
And make me an instrument of your will.""

So Obama believes in being an instrument of Gods will.
Scarry

I'm sure Sarah Palin can clear up all the confusion that she's generated in the media with a few interviews.

By the way, it was also real classy of Obama to throw away 85 trash bags containing 12,000 American flags in Denver. Luckily, the Country First McCain team rescued the flags from the trash and had boy scouts and Veterans pass them out to the everyday, small town religion clingers.

On the off chance anyone had the slightest doubt, this is a complete fabrication.

Anonymous,

Since Palin herself writes and signs letters in the name of "Your Heavenly Father," I'd be careful about accusing people of having God complexes. (See story here: http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html)

The media pretend that they bring us events live when most of the time they broadcast spin and talking points from the candidates or a photo op. John Stewart is so successful because he treats the fiction like the fiction it is. No wonder his viewers are better informed.

One of your better posts, Mr. Klein. May I suggest that this subject (the media's tap dance with its self-assigned subjectivity) be one you hammer at, from now 'til kingdom come. The behaviors you accurately describe must be publicly ridiculed and dissected, until the social/economic costs of engaging in such behaviors become too great to bear.

When you watch this video REMEMBER…this was Sarah Palin’s church for nearly her entire life.

Okay, so it's cool to equate Obama to the statements of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Reverend Michael Flagler. What about equating domestic terrorist Bill Ayers to Obama . . . or is that not kosher, because Bill Ayers isn't a pastor?

You sure that's a wise approach? Or are you counting on what's good for the goose not being good for the gander?

Somehow, I don't think the media will ever ask itself if it's been too tough on Obama.

How has the media been tough on Obama? Seriously? Outside of, maybe, Bill O'Rielly, how?

The media spent all their time during the primaries attacking Hillary. They went after her with such gusto, you would have though she was a Republican. But Obama?

You must have an entirely different media from the one I watch.

I must have dreamed sitting through 6 weeks of Reverend Wright proving Obama hates America, in addition to constant coverage of Bill Ayers, bitter-gate, and various Michelle comments.

One can only imagine that if Obama and Michelle had also joined and sent video messages to an anti-American separatist party whose founder was killed in a plastic explosives deal "gone wrong", it probably would have doomed Obama's candidacy if not been on a 24 hour news cycle for months.

But, hey, John McCain used to be Jesus and Republicans are sensitive to issues of family privacy now, so, you know, whatever.

Ezra: you are the media.

I watched a recording of Washington Week in Review tonight (I'm sick, I know).

But Jeanne Cummings did not apologize for the Palin coverage, and said the press has a responsibility to find out everything they possibly can in the next sixty days about someone who could be noext inline for the presidency. The audience applauded her for about thirty seconds.

How refreshing if the media could actually remember why they exist. Hint: it's not to parrot back unsourced spin and speculate on how a politician's blatant bullshit will play in Peoria.

What is the McCain campaign trying to hard? Why won't they let responsible reporters ask Palin questions? When will we get more than speeches and find out what we need to know about Palin's experience, record, and positions on the issues?

Sign a new petition to open up news media access to Sarah Palin:

http://www.interviewsarahpalinnow.com/

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Did the lamestream media ever demand Obama or Biden provide private information on their underage children.
THE ANSWER IS NO.
Nuff said.

Now the press, and the left (Go figure how the media and the liberals all get the same ideas at the same time..must just be a giant coincidence)
Are trying to argue that Palin is avoiding the press.

Well, Obama waited 11 MONTHS before he would go on Meet The Press after he announced for President..the media never complained. And that was a friendly network working hard to get Obama elected.

Obama refused to go on Bill O'Reilly, which would have been a tough interview. Obama ducked him for 17 MONTHS, not 7 days.

Of courese the lamestream press never complained or pressured Obama to appear.

More proven bias.

"""On the off chance anyone had the slightest doubt, this is a complete fabrication"""

The Obama campaign response if they were actually storing the flags in the trash dumpsters, apparently planning to come back and get them some day in the future.
How lame. They got caught and immediatley took to lying.

"Take all of those mistakes, multiply by 10, and you'll have the treatment Obama's received this campaign season."

On what planet?
Even the Rev. Wright stuff turned into a love-fest over that "important speech on race."

Are we sure they were bags of American flags? My sources in Denver tell me it was BAGS OF LITTLE ABORTED FETUSES from Nobama's audience. Girls were aborting them in the aisles and at the concession stands all evening long. The No-Man was originally going to let homeless guys sell all the fetal tissue to laboratories, but when the McCain campaign caught on, the Obamiacs immediately started talking about "US flags." Clever smokescreen--flags are doused in red, as are aborted fetuses. Clever.

The usual approaches to media navel-gazing are:

(1) Cable-TV version: Let campaign spinners critique the media - from both sides, of course. Hope that both sides will be equally critical, but the session inevitably will reinforce the most loudly aggrieved party's spin.

(2) PBS version: Call in "experts" (dean of the XYZ School of Journalism, superannuated former network anchor, pre-1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter now writing books) for ponderous analysis with no discernible punchline.

(3) Newspaper editor/ombudsperson version: Present three examples of crossing the line, cite pernicious influence of Drudge/Daily Kos/National Enquirer, assert that most coverage is even-handed, promise to do better.

The Obama campaign response if they were actually storing the flags in the trash dumpsters

On the off chance anyone had the slightest doubt, this is also a complete fabrication.

"That gets you the consistently confusing coverage where the very people who will decide how the public understands an event makes that decision by speculating how they think the public will understand an event."

It's weird: In the information age, this is how we all engage with politics now. We all analyze, speculate and pontificate on how such-and-such (speech, action, behavior) will be perceived... as if there's some big, faceless group out there that -- unlike us -- is going to be doing this earnest perceiving.

But when EVERYBODY is doing this analyzing and speculating, just who comprises this big, faceless group anymore? Just watch the "viewer roundtables" that TV stations put together for a big speech or what have you. All the participants -- who ostensibly are supposed to be these straightforward citizen absorbers of the event -- will talk in terms of "I think it was a good move to say X about single moms" or "The speech won't go over well with the youth cohort" or whatever. In other words, nobody is truly absorbing the event in a straightforward way -- we're all analyzing how we THINK the event will be absorbed by others.

We do the same thing out here in blog-land. It's all about perceptions of perceptions.

What I'm basically getting at, I guess, is that when everybody is in on the strategy game, exactly who is being "strategized to" anymore?

Yes! Thank you. See also Jay Rosen's blog Pressthink.

When you write like this Ezra I am putty in your hands...this is a beautiful, short, concise statement of Media Malfeasance...thanks!

If this was the French Revolution these poseurs would all be led to the guillotine...

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Everything McCain has said up to now has been sour grapes. He proved it when he picked Palin. All that talk about Obama just being a celebrity and a rock star, and then, when McCain has to appoint someone as a potential president, he forgets about "ready on day one" and instead tries to make a star of his own.

McCain and his people didn't believe in their own chief argument against Obama.

Sure wish someone with the Obama campaign would point that out.

kyle,
If attention is brought to Palin's experience, that draws attention on Obama's experience (lack of). Then comes the question of "What did Palin and Obama do with their limited time in their respective offices?" and Palin clearly has many more accomplishments than Obama.

The media has been unfair to Palin, the examples are out there. The media is now trying to defend itself from the backlash. Check the polls, over half of Americans believe the media has mistreated Palin. McCain/Palin has also gotten a bump, they are winning in Zogby and Gallup today.

People equate the media with Democrats (for obvious reasons) so when the media fucks up, so to did the Democrats.

Obama needs to get his arms around his surrogates in the media, the are messing up his chances to be Prez.

It's all smokescreen. Nobody on cable TV, and certainly not network TV, ever brings up that Palin bankrupted her town and raised taxes, or that she hired a city administrator to basically do all of the day to day work, or that she has a documented history of paranoid vendetta attacks against other people in Alaskan government. Nobody has discussed how her oil commissioner seat was a plumb job handed to her by cronies, or that she resigned from it pretty abruptly anyway when she got over her head. Her allegedly "home run hit" speech has not been substantially fact checked on TV (much to the McBush team's relief). The whole story in the news media is just that her weird family situation got brought up and gosh how horrible to do that. It's a nice screen. It's so nice I doubt we will ever see these things discussed anywhere except on the web.