Ben Smith almost – almost! – gets it right in his exasperated reaction to that exasperatingly bad Vanity Fair hit piece about THAT WOMAN. Ben does recognize that there’s an astounding amount of bad and/or thinly sourced material written about former Governor Palin – the example he gave was of a reporter who criticized the Palin family for their treatment of Trig Palin at an event, even though Trig wasn’t actually there in the first place – but there’s one big, bad, paradigm-shifting assumption that he makes that fatally undermines his piece. To wit:
Palin almost never talks to neutral media outlets…
We have “neutral media outlets?” Since when?