McClatchy Newspapers VP threatens to fire any reporter who asks about Palin pregnancy, DUI, Levi

[Newsjock]

http://editor.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-wagging-dog-in-dodge-city.html
By Howard Weaver, VP of news, The McClatchy Co.

I believe I’d fire any reporter who wasted a chance to question Gov. Sarah Palin by asking a single question about pregnancies, DUIs or thuggish boyfriends.

... Blogs with millions of readers feel free to charge Gov. Palin faked her pregnancy to cover up for her daughter, and then (as far as I can see) remove the offending post after it’s debunked. GOP media handlers get away with hiding a newly named vice presidential nominee away from any press contact at all for days.

The old order is gone, with all its faults and all its checks and balances. We’re in new territory today, and it’s a dangerous land. I don't pretend to know how this will turn out.

To paraphrase the benediction we hear so often at political conventions, “God bless the press, and God bless the United States of America.”

[chicagoexpat]

1. What about bizarro political affiliations and crackpot churches?

[yardwork]

2. Did they fire their reporters for asking if Obama is a Muslim?

[samsingh]

3. they were probably promoted for asking what people are all supposedly asking

you know, why don't we agree to dismantle the msm? afterall, the right claims they're liberal anyway, so they would support such a move.

let's begin by getting rid of

Fox News
CBC (especially couric)
ABC (the morons that brought the stupid pro-bush movies filled with historical lies and made up shit)
Clear Channel radio
Mcclachy newspapers
new york post
washington times
wall street journal editorial page


that would be a good start don't you think. The rightwing claims the MSM is liberal so let's get rid of these biased organizations for America's sake.

[DCKit]

4. There aren't enough fatal issues on the table already?

Let the Enquirer, Jerry Springer and the 'nets get filthy dirty, there's more than enough to go around.

McClatchy will do well enough with the facts.

[Punkingal]

5. I am confused.

He says he would fire anyone who WASTED a chance to ask her the questions. I think that means it is okay with him if they ask it.

[progressivebydesign]

6. I think it means "wasted a chance" to ask something substantial.

In other words, as McCranky is circling the wagons an clamming up because of Palin's many scandals, this guy is pissed that any reporter wasted a chance to ask something important, and instead pissed the mcCain campaign off by asking about those other things. I think that makes sense... Cuz Palin's got so much dirt on her that has nothing to do with her family. We risk making her a martyr of the liberal blogs and media.