"…Palin? Who’s filtering her? She has spent her month as a major-party vice presidential candidate..."

“…Palin? Who’s filtering her? She has spent her month as a major-party vice presidential candidate without holding a single press conference. She has submitted to a number of interviews that you could count on the fingers of a single hand, and still have fingers left over. Yet she has the chutzpah to gripe that she would happily “speak directly to the folks,� but the darned media filter keeps getting in her way! No, Palin’s problem isn’t too much filter — it’s not enough signal. Obviously Palin’s preference is for a media channel in which no one will interrupt her talking points or challenge her on a stumble or a lie. She longs for some sort of combination of blogging’s directness and the Olympian remoteness of a broadcast medium that brooks no challenge. “Let me talk to you without the filter,� she says, “but I won’t take questions.� Every politician would love that — but nearly all accept that they’re not going to get it.� - Scott Rosenberg