Live from New York, it’s Gov. Sarah Palin’s top-secret foreign policy tutorial!

[maddezmom]

Media Rebellion Over Palin Photo-Ops
By Michael Cooper
Updated Live from New York, it’s Gov. Sarah Palin’s top-secret foreign policy tutorial!

Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is scheduled to meet Tuesday in New York with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

But the McCain-Palin campaign’s sharp limitations on coverage of the meetings have sparked a mini-revolt – and a threatened boycott — among the press corps.

The campaign plans to bar print reporters from the meetings, and to limit coverage to brief photo-ops for a still photographer and a television camera. The television stations, though, are objecting, noting that they have a policy of not sending cameras to cover events without a producer, who provided editorial guidance.

more:http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/media-rebellion-over-palin-photo-ops/

McCain Campaign About-Face On Editorial Presence for Palin's U.N. Visit
Developing: TVNewser has learned all the networks were prepared to ban the use of pictures and video from Gov. Sarah Palin's meetings at the UN today. The ban was in protest of the McCain campaign's restriction on editorial presence.

We hear the networks had arranged for a pool camera to cover all the meetings, and at least three journalists were to be present as well (one print, one radio, one TV). Earlier today, the McCain campaign said it would allow just one editorial person inside. Later, the campaign limited it to a camera only.

Within the last few minutes, the campaign reversed course and will allow a CNN producer in to the meetings.
more:http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/mccain_campaign_aboutface_on_editorial_presence_for_palins_un_visit_95323.asp

[pinto]

1. And, apparently, a top-secret campaign for federal office.

:eyes:

[TexasObserver]

2. Sarah Palin's speed dating with world leaders!

She'll meet with some guy for 10 minutes, then talk about it like she's known them ten years.