(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSNkloIFTQ0)
(Via Minnesota Independent.)
Congrats again to CNN. Keep it up. Be relentless. It's the only way to embarrass the McCain campaign into letting Palin out of her protective shell.
And if they still refuse to subject Palin to any substantive media scrutiny, perhaps it will be time to take Dan Savage's advice:
Maybe it’s time for the media to pull all reporters—print and television, photographers and videographers—off the McCain campaign. Entirely. Press coverage of a campaign is supposed to be a two-way street. The candidate wants to get his mug on television, he wants his rallies and speeches broadcast and written up, he wants to use the media to reach the voters. In exchange for allowing themselves to be used, the candidate is supposed to make himself available to reporters and anchors, answer questions, hold press conferences. The McCain campaign isn’t holding up its end of the deal. It’s using the media to reach voters without making Palin and, increasingly, McCain available for questioning.
But I can't imagine that would actually work. It's a classic collective action problem: no one major media outlet could afford to boycott the McCain campaign unless all other major media outlets actually joined the boycott as well.
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