GOODY TWO SHOES: Is This Really, Um, News?
The Washington Post’s media critic-cum-political pundit Howard Kurtz writes about the media’s misplaced coverage priorities – as well as Mama and Papa Obama’s two-faced privacy policies – as regards Sasha and Malia:
Sasha and Malia started at Sidwell [Monday].
Now I was perfectly prepared to go off on a rant about the media's boneheaded failure to leave these two girls alone. They didn't ask to be in the spotlight. They're 10 and 7, for crying out loud. …
But then I went to Obama's transition site and there's an item on Sasha and Malia's first day of school, complete with family photos.
Which means either:
a) Barack and Michelle aren't as uptight over shielding their kids as we've been led to believe - remember the "Access Hollywood" interview - or,
b) The parents concluded that there was such voracious media interest in the girls that they had little choice but to feed the beast, perhaps in the hope that the photographers would back off if everyone had access to some family pictures.
A surprisingly snarky Kurtz advises the media to “[g]o crazy over something that really matters, like the family's new dog,” adding, “Maybe the administration will give the pooch its own blog.”
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