Ever since Palin could not answer Katie Couric's question, "What do you read?", she has become known as a bit of a dunce. What many people do not know about Sarah Palin is that she has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Hawaii. She recently said "I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism..." I think the first step she can take is to start acting like a serious thinker.
Palin consistently dodges reporters of any news organization that does not give her a favorable view. She only gives interviews to places like NewsMax, Fox News, or The Christian Broadcasting Network. All three of these are actually unreputable news organizations. She doesn't go on CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC. She won't talk to the New York Time or the Washington Post. Her interviews are to organizations that do NOT practice good journalism. It is ironic at BEST that she would make such a statement. In theory she knows very well what she is doing. She knows what good journalism should be, she just chooses for some reason not to engage news companies that practice it. I think she does have a lesson to teach. Any news organization that she regularly appears on is an example of HOW NOT TO PRACTICE GOOD JOURNALISM. Until she engages with real reporters, she cannot be taken seriously as a public thinker.
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