From Wasilla, Alaska

An interesting take on Palin from a citizen of Wasilla, Alaska.

I particularly liked one commenter's idea: Require board certification and licensing for journalists, with revocation upon ethical malfeasance such as slanting, opinionizing in "factual reporting", factual omission, and so on. Similar to what doctors and lawyers have. Such ethical requrements would eliminate the entire industry to which we are now subjected; leftist superstar news "anchors" would be replaced with dispassionate readers of the news; field journalists would be double-checked for accuracy and balance and then incur professional punishment for infractions... just like doctors and lawyers.

As it is, the journalist cadre appears as a troupe of crazed monkeys fighting for their own leftist stuff. Certainly not for objectivity. Prime example: the Palin vetting flap. What the media was exercised about was that they didn't have time to dig dirt on the Republican choice for Veep, and couldn't air it along with the convention coverage. Caught with their pants down, they created a Red Herring to cover for themselves. But that backfired too. The journalist cadre is soooo transparent.

With time, the national journalist gaggle might be starved out by the internet blogosphere. Not that that would be any better, quality wise, except that more viewpoints would be available - and already are. Newspapers already are succumbing. Hopefully TV celeb news will too.

In the meantime, read the article above. You won't get this on primetime TV.