tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post2651481341380103892..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Palin and the pressRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-2281601806979232462008-10-20T16:20:00.000-04:002008-10-20T16:20:00.000-04:00What you say makes tremendous sense on a sensible ...What you say makes tremendous sense on a sensible workaday level.<BR/><BR/>I've got no reportorial experience and I'm sure as hell not a campaign expert, but I do have a job. If my job were cover a candidate and I couldn't get anything more from him or her than what the cameras already got or what was supplied in the pre-speech notes, I would have to find something to justify my pay. <BR/><BR/>If a few words in reply to a question isn't coming, or I couldn't get a backstage look even, then it'd have to be a little more creative. If I felt put-off by the experience it probably wouldn't be good. I'd like to consider myself professional enough to be even handed but then we all do have our biases and unexamined prejudices.<BR/><BR/>Reports of Palin's recent availability may be too little too late to do much good. A few questions and answers to and from events shouldn't have the gotcha potential these people seem to fear. Thanks for the working journalist POV, we usually get the result of it without the background.Ronsonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03084095209525920755noreply@blogger.com