More media criticism from Fox News' Sarah Palin
Written by Karl Frisch
Published
Sigh.
Get ready for another round of half-baked media criticism from Fox News contributor Sarah Palin.
Appearing on today's Fox News Sunday (a.k.a. Fox Hollywood), the former half-term Governor of Alaska played a round of “blame the media” following host Chris Wallace's lead as she defended Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul saying:
So, you know one thing that we can learn in this lesson, that I have learned and Rand Paul is learning now, is don't assume that you can engage in a hypothetical discussion about constitutional impacts with a reporter or media personality who has an agenda, who may be prejudiced before they even get into the interview in regards to what your answer may be and then the opportunity that they seize to getch ya. You know they're looking for that 'gotcha moment' and that's what evidently appears to be that they did with Rand Paul.
Don't laugh at Palin's ramblings. Remember, she only took her job at Fox News because, as she told Jay Leno, she wanted to “build trust in the media” and Fox was just the place to do it (emphasis added):
"I had studied journalism...my college degree there in communications and now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think that the mainstream media is quite broken and I think that there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there...that's why I joined Fox."
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"Those years ago that I studied journalism, it was all about the who, what, where, when and why. It was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. So, I would like to see, in order to build trust in the media, because it is a cornerstone of our democracy, Americans deserve to have more of that factual fairness."
I guess the real “hypothetical” is the notion that Palin can contribute anything of substance during her appearances on Fox. It's a bit like watching an animated reenactment of her Facebook posts -- light on the facts, heavy on the blame.
Perhaps the lesson people can really learn from her is this: when in doubt, blame the media.
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