Forgetting Sarah Palin

[Turborama]

Posted by Richard Adams

It's journalism at its most post-modern: a writer for the Washington Post, concerned at the number of articles he has written about Sarah Palin, writes another article explaining how he's going to have a month-long moratorium from writing articles about Sarah Palin.

Dana Milbank, a politics columnist for the Washington Post, announced on Friday that he was http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012004349.html">declaring February to be a Sarah Palin-free zone. After admitting "I can no longer hide the truth. I have a Sarah Palin problem," Milbank writes:

"I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin - in print, online or on television - for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free February. With enough support, I believe we may even be able to extend the moratorium beyond one month, but we are up against a powerful compulsion, and we must take this struggle day by day."

Pointing out that the Huffington Post managed to mention Palin in 19 separate articles in a single day last week, Milbank even set up an http://twitter.com/home?status=I%27m%20making%20February%20a%20Palin-free%20month.%20Will%20you%20join%20me?%20http://wapo.st/eLSl3w">automated Twitter generator for those joining his self-censorship crusade.

Bravely disregarding the dangers of self-parody, http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/21/columnist-declares-february-palin-free/">CNN leaped into the fray: "Has the media grown tired of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee? We asked Ari Melber, a correspondent for The Nation, and Steve Kornacki of Salon.com."

Full piece: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/jan/22/sarah-palin-washington-post-moratorium

[Beartracks]

1. They'd point it out nightly, wouldn't they?

"Welcome to CNN. It is now Day 17 of our Palin-Free Zone!"

:eyes:

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[somone]

2. The media's version of abstinence pledge

[Imagevision]

3. shhhh....

[Orrex]

4. Has Sarah Palin been reached for comment yet?

What does Sarah Palin think of all this?

[CommonSensePLZ]

11. Hehehe! nt

[liberal N proud]

5. She can be victim again

[opihimoimoi]

6. Palin Phatigue??? Oh My..so soon?

[elocs]

7. As long as there is a DU, Sarah Palin will never be forgotten.

She is one of the top obsessions here with somebody having to start a thread about nearly every time she opens her mouth.

[emilyg]

9. +1,000

[Raschel]

10. I'm glad people kept speaking out against her. What if nobody said anything about the crosshairs map

or the blood libel, or the other hateful divisive things she's said.

All of the protesting seemed to make a difference.

[AC_Mem]

8. With Todd's boinking the escort story breaking

It's gonna be a longggg February for Dana Milbank..

:)