The DC: Palin hit piece an example of shoddy journalism

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At the Daily Caller, Rusty Weiss channels Captain Obvious and calls the Vanity Fair hatchet job on Sarah Palin "an example of shoddy journalism":

Michael Joseph Gross of Vanity Fair is the kind of journalist you’ve come to expect these days. He’s the kind of journalist that tabloid reporters look at with disdain. The kind of reporter producing work that even TMZ photogs would consider beneath them. He’s the kind of journalist you’d expect to find rooting through one’s garbage for some deep, dark secret to expose to the world.

His recent hit piece on Sarah Palin follows the same theme, entitled, “Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury.” In this piece, Gross goes on a mind-numbingly long (10,000+ words) diatribe about Palin’s secretive, dark, backstage persona.

“Her on-the-record statements,” Gross says, “amount to a litany of untruths and half-truths.”

With so many words focusing on Palin’s life being a lie, one would imagine that the journalist had a host of witnesses, friends, or sources from which to pool information. And indeed, Gross has plenty. There’s just one problem. He can’t name any of them...

Read the full Rusty Weiss op-ed at The DC.

- JP