Media Adolescence And “All Palin February”

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Last week Washington Post Journalist Dana Milbank wrote this:

“And so, I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin — in print, online or on television — for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free February. With enough support, I believe we may even be able to extend the moratorium beyond one month, but we are up against a powerful compulsion, and we must take this struggle day by day.”

Can you imagine that? A journalist declaring that he will self-impose a news blackout on a political figure, and he even goes so far as to ask others in the media to join him as he calls for a moratorium on Sarah Palin. Hello? Mr. Milbank, are you a journalist or are you an adolescent leader of girl gang hell bent on destroying the head cheerleader? If he could have only included a good stomp up the stairs, he would have perfected the finer technique of the petulant schoolgirl bully.

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