Yesterday the New York Daily News ran this story on their front cover. It's a story about Palin coming to town, sort of. The Daily News created a fake Palin by having a 29 year-old actress/look-a-like pose as the VP nominee. Why? To get New Yorkers response.
But again, why?
With the turmoil on Wall Street and the election- involving real politicians- was there not enough news for the Daily News to report?
I'm a big fan of investigative reporting. Without reporters like Nellie Bly posing as insane, the New York mental institutions (or "mad houses") wouldn't have been reformed so quickly.
Without Neil Sheehan hiding out in a hotel room with thousands of pages stolen by Daniel Ellsworth the history and truth behind the Vietnam War (published in "The Pentagon Papers") would never be known.
But why investigate what New Yorkers think of a faux Palin when the News could just see what New Yorkers think of the real Palin?
And what did the fake Palin help the News discover? They found what we all already knew, New Yorkers tend to be liberal. Shocker.
*photo credit: Sabo/News
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