Has anyone else noticed that CNN.com’s Ticker has an obsession with Sarah Palin and her family? I noticed this a few months ago, and started checking in on a fairly regular basis just to see if this was truly news-driven, or if someone at CNN had a Sarah Palin fetish. I believe the latter is true.
CNN claims their Ticker is “The latest political news from CNN’s Best Political Team with campaign coverage 24-8.” Apparently the best this crack team can come up with are invariably negative headlines rotating through favorite topics such as making sure everyone knows when Palin’s polls have dropped, how Bristol did on Dancing With the Stars, implying a vast right-wing conspiracy directed by Fox News, and making sure the world knows what such main-stream celebrities as Robert Redford and Tina Fay think of Palin (in case we hadn’t guessed).
Not that it really matters all that much, but perhaps CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney should let go of his personal views and report on the rest of the 2012 candidates. Additionally, he could leave the intellectual baby-formula to TMZ and provide articles on the issues relevant to all American citizens. He could turn his obvious writing talent to creating a forum for factual, un-biased reporting on those issues, and what both the current administration and the presidential candidates are or would be doing to handle them.
Whatever you think of Sarah Palin, join me in requesting that both CNN and FOX leave behind their social engineering efforts and start reporting the facts for us to digest on our own. We are a great Nation with widely varying views of our country and world. We would appreciate respect from the media in recognizing that we can form our own opinions. We don’t need to be led to a conclusion or out-right told what to think.
