Legal Commentary

"Normal People"

By Big Tent Democrat

This story has been going the blog rounds. This is the part that stood out for me:

Julie Mason, a White House correspondent and blogger for The Washington Examiner [and a former White House reporter for The Houston Chronicle, said] yes, news consumers care about the minutiae[.] “When I talk to normal people, they want to know what these people are really like away from the camera,” she said.

Let me put it this way Ms. Mason, you are not talking to "normal people" if they care what Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn are like. They are not normal people if they KNOW who Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn are. (No offense intended to the "powerful" Bauer couple.)

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).