Surprise! "Little interest" in Palin story last week
November 25, 2009 1:25 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
You mean there's an enormous disconnect between what Beltway media elites claim is newsworthy and what news consumers are actually interested in? Shocking, we know.
And it's not like we didn't see this one coming, amidst the orgy of Palin coverage last week:
I'll bet five bucks that when the Pew Research numbers come out this week we'll see a massive disconnect in terms of the amount of time journalists dedicated (i.e. wasted) to the Palin story, and the microscopic percentage of news consumers who listed the Palin book launch as the story they paid the most attention to last week. Instead, once again it will be the economy or health care that top the list because (surprise!) that's what matters to people. Beltway parlor games, and especially pointless ones involving Palin, are of no interest to most news consumers.
Well, the Pew numbers are out and exactly 2 percent of Americans pointed to Palin's book release as the story they followed most closely last week. Yet on cable TV last week, the Palin story devoured 14 percent of the entire news hole.
And oh yeah, a majority of Americans agreed they were hearing "too much" about Palin. So I guess instead of more than 1,700 "Palin" mentions on network and cable news last week, a mere 200-300 would have sufficed.
Her remaining two minute drill will be the 2012 Republican primaries. After she gets blown out of the first few we won't hear from her again.
We can only hope.
Do the republicans actually want to woo independant voters?
Then come up with a viable canidate that has an actual "plan", and no I don't mean the old mantra "less government/cut taxes", to get people employed and pay off the debt.
Only crazy people keep repeating the same act over and over, and then expecting different results.
Every since some of her Fans as she Fled from a Book Signing called her a Thief.
Ms. Palin thinks it's a good idea for the Israelis to build Settlements on the Golan Heights.
When Barbara Walters mentioned that the West Bank is really on Palestinian Land she looked like a Deer Caught in her own Headlights.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
It got old quick though...
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someone is definitely hearing too much about palin...
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Since I cut and paste this directly from Amazon, I am sure that it won't turn out too well.
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Ain't afraid of no Vietcong king
There are many kinds of truth. There are truths based on facts, truths based on faith, and truths based on something that sounds as if it should be true (truthiness). Then there's the kind of truth we find in Sarah's book: stories and concepts that become truths simply because she states them. She's a lot like our Lord and Savior, Glen Beck, in that respect...
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Published 8 days ago by Gen. JC Christian, patriot
How about an hour long investigation of Afghanistan.. or Blackwater.. or torture.. or the H1N1 flu..
heaven forbid the media actually does, you know.. REPORTING!!!
The very first sentence should have explained this to you. The very first sentence. You can't miss that unless you TRY really hard to ignore it, yet it went in one ear and out the other apparently!
You mean there's an enormous disconnect between what Beltway media elites claim is newsworthy and what news consumers are actually interested in?