Political Perceptions: Is it Worth Covering Palin At All?

Given that it now appears Gov. Sarah Palin will finish the campaign without ever holding a press conference or making an appearance on the Sunday interview shows, Christopher Hitchens , writing on Slate, wonders whether the press should even continue to cover her. Noting that Sen. Lindsey Graham , an adviser to Sen. John McCain , in early September offered a promise that Palin would be made available, Hitchens writes: “If it is not kept, then why should the press and the networks continue to cover a candidate who could, for all we know, be Angela Lansbury ?” Hitchens writes that, when she was named, “I rather feebly took the line that one should give her the benefit of the doubt and not be condescending, but it does now begin to look as if most of what she claimed for herself, from the ‘bridge to nowhere’ to the ‘troopergate’ business, was very questionable at best, and much of what her critics said was essentially true…The problem with Gov. Palin is ... (link)