Posted by
Dawn on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:00:06 PM
Tomorrow, Thursday evening, the world was to have been awaiting to see the PBS journalist, Gwen Ifell, attempt to puncture, deflate, demoralize, destroy, throw gasoline on, set on fire, drive over, back up and drive over again, Governor Sarah Palin for daring to appear at the podium as a candidate for Vice President on the Republican ticket. However, Ms. Ifell checked her own journalistic principles and dubious ethics when upon her selection as monitor, she neglected to inform the Commission for Presidential Debates that she has penned a tome entitled, Politics and Race in The Age of Barack Obama, to be released on Inaugeration Day 2009. Must have just slipped Ms. Ifell`s mind until now and she was only counting her chickens before they came home to roost. What an inconvenient truth for her!
The game has suddenly changed. Will there be any consequences for Ms. Ifill? Can she be an objective and fair journalist interrogating Governor Palin? Will anyone in the media subject Ms. Ifill`s moderation of the VP debate with any objectivity? It could be said that any professional who committed such an ethical lapse of judgement would stand down if only to save her stellar reputation . Even considering this little drama of her compromised journalistic principles, Gwen will still want the limelight above anything else. As they say, truth will out. Tune in tomorrow.
Update: Gwen Ifill was a professional this evening, 10/2/08. I stand by my previous remarks, however.