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The Media Descend to a New Low
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Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig. The screaming headline: "Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain's Vice President."
Wenner has contributed $5300 to Obama's campaign since 2007.
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The cover was sent to select news organizations by Mark Neschis, the head of corporate communications for Wenner Media and former director of television in the Clinton White House. An email from Neschis that accompanied the cover read: "Thought I would send over our Us Weekly/Sarah Palin cover story, on stands Friday, if helpful in your coverage. Might be useful as an illustration of how the news is playing out. (Us Weekly has 12 million, mostly female readers)"
"How the news is playing out." That's an interesting way of putting it. In one sense, it's accurate. The mainstream media have been focused on pseudo-scandals about McCain's running mate. Does it really matter at all that Palin's husband, Todd, had a DUI in 1986? Who cares? And yet I've seen and heard news organizations mention -- even discuss -- the issue several times over the past couple of days.
The "news is playing out" that way because irresponsible journalists publish cover stories promoting "Babies, Lies and Scandal," without any evidence of an actual "scandal." Maybe US Weekly will publish news of an actual "scandal" by Friday, when the magazine is scheduled to hit the newsstands. But the three it mentions on its cover are not scandals. ("Under attack, admits daughter, 17, is pregnant" and "Investigated for firing of sister's ex-husband" and "Mom of Five: New embarrassing surprises.")
There are legitimate questions about how Palin was vetted. But many news organizations are using the vetting issue as an excuse to make insinuations about Palin's family and her role as a mother. Instead of asking whether McCain knew that Palin wanted "an exit plan" from Iraq in December of 2006, for example, reporters are obsessing about Bristol Palin's fiancé and whether Sarah Palin can serve as vice president and be a good mother.
It's ironic, of course, that the same establishment news organizations consumed by such tabloid issues not long ago refused to investigate reports that John Edwards was having an affair and had a child out of wedlock. Why? The story was originally broken by the National Enquirer and deemed too tawdry to touch. And, perhaps as important, Edwards was running for the Democratic nomination for president, with an agenda favored by the liberal media establishment.
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Doesn't really surprise me, but considering the source, I'd probably use it to line to bottom of my bird's cage. It's that much of garbage. They can't dig any real dirt on her, since there is none, so they have to fabricate whatever they can, and hope we are all gullible enough to believe it. Sad to say,the left-wing nuts will probably. But,at least we know the truth.
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IMO, the media ALWAYS descends to the lowest when they can make a profit from it. Palin is "top news", so gotta get her name and face out there any way they can...negative attention is better than no attention at all. It wouldn't sell to say what a terrific mother, candidate, etc. she is, so they stir up some stuff!
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well i guess they didn't listen to Obama LOL keep her family out of this. She is the VP candidate for crying out loud...I mean what her job really be? however, if the article is out on the cover, there must be some interested in Palin. You know the old saying, "The only bad news in an obituary"
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The media is evil.
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I agree dbeattie.
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http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/offbeat/7472/Why_the_media_should_apologize_Roger_Simon_Politico_com
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Agree dbeattie!!
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Considering the source it is no surprise...praying people will have common sense and realize the media is very one-sided!
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I am about to turn off my TV until this election is all over the media has gone WAY overboard. It is like the media is the instagater in the middle of two kids in a playground fight. This election has become such a joke! Instead of either parties actually talking about there stand on the issues they are spending all there time bashing each other from the night before's "news story"! JMO
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