Howard Kurtz: Actually, the media held back on Palin

Journalists faced a real dilemma with Palin over the last two months. Some of the early coverage, about her fitness as a mother, was unfair. But once she bobbled the Charlie Gibson interview and totally botched the Katie Couric encounter, many reporters were privately more critical than they felt comfortable being in public.
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What do you say, after all, about a woman who seems unfamiliar with the Bush doctrine, can’t name a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with other than Roe v. Wade, and cannot point to a single newspaper she reads? And, later, says her First Amendment rights are being infringed because the media keep criticizing her?