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Sarah Palin's a journalist, too

School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho

Sarah Palin’s selection as the Republican vice presidential nominee raised questions not only about her qualifications to hold the nation’s second highest office, but also the suitability of someone with a journalism background to succeed in politics at the national level, writes the current director of the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho, where Sarah Palin studied. Gov. Palin is not the first candidate on a national ticket in the United States to have been a journalist, observes Bird. Warren Harding, President from 1921 until 1923, was editor of the Marion, Ohio, Daily Star before venturing into politics and Al Gore, defeated for the presidency by George W Bush in 2000, worked as an investigative reporter from 1971 to 1976 at The Tennessean in Nashville. Bird investigates ways the attributes of a good journalist might help a politician.

British Journalism Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, 13-16 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0956474808100860


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