Ah, she got what she always wanted to be, a TV personality
Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:07 am
It speaks to the banality of Western civilization, that to those who once claimed to a noble aspiration for the second highest position in the free world, a bullet (or melanoma’s, in her case) breath away from being the leader of the free world – the correct course of action is to quit her public service job, write a book and get a talking head position at a news network
Sarah Palin is going to FOX News. And this is a shock?
As news making continues to splinter and diffuse to the disruptive free press of the internet, which has turned the economics of news on its head, and we risk a world in which broad based quality news is not affordable for the masses (Foreign Affairs in South Africa is R146 an issue – a sure sign of where quality newspapers and magazines are going), there is going to be a further rise in public demagoguery as the voices that lead the man in the street, whether in the US or in South Africa – into paths of ever greater crassness.
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Filed under: Government, Ideas, Media, Sarah Palin by Andrew la Grange
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