CNN and Palin the Diva

Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" today focused mainly on the McCain and Palin camp. There was by far more coverage of those two than Obama, and even less coverage of Biden because they seem to forget that he exists at all. 

First, he focused on the horse race and the three (Obama, McCain, and Palin) campaigning in PA. There was no mention of Biden until Palin made some comments about his tax policies. Dana Bash, who was narrating this part, called McCain the "gritty warrior," which I think definitely plays on the maverick narrative. Wolf then went on for a while about McCain and Palin, but when it came time for Obama, he talked substantially less. 

The next part of the piece was "It's all about Palin." Wolf talked about how the media is so obsessed with Palin and she is now being called a "diva" and getting more air time. He talked about the tension between Palin and McCain because they are both "mavericks" and have some different ideas, and then they showed her defending her clothes and attributing them to the RNC. Some pundits that were interviewed said how a lot of the criticism to Palin is demeaning to women and is sexist, and then Wolf talked about the finger-pointing within the McCain camp at mishandling Palin.

The whole part about Palin being a diva was so ironic, because they are just perpetuating the matter by giving her even more air time through this segment. It is so obvious that the media is giving her so much more air time and is obsessed with her, why do they have to go through it even more and keep repeating it? And also, it is not demeaning to women to criticize another woman. Just because people don't like her policies doesn't mean they are criticizing them because she is a woman, it just means they disagree with her.