Palin on Which Newspapers She Reads: 'Um, All of Them'

By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress
Posted on October 1, 2008, Printed on November 22, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.thinkprogress.org//101018/

Last night on the CBS Evening News, host Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin which sources she relies on for her news consumption. Three separate times, Couric tried to elicit a response from Palin about which specific newspapers she reads. Seemingly caught off guard, Palin could not name a single news source:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?


PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —


COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.


PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.


COURIC: Can you name any of them?


PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.

Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.

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