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Sarah Palin - a creature made by TV and destroyed by TV | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Do you remember that uniquely American political phenomenon Sarah Palin? Of course you do, but you have been hearing and seeing much less of her lately. And no wonder...
A Washington Post/ABC News poll a week ago found that her approval ratings among Republicans had plunged since they were previously measured last October.
The numbers of Republicans who are "strongly unfavourable" towards her have risen dramatically, prompting commentators to write of her presidential bid "imploding."
Why is that? John Doyle, TV reviewer at Canada's Globe and Mail, has a theory:
"It was television that destroyed Sarah Palin, just as it made her... The arrival of Palin as a major political figure in 2008 was an emanation of the reality-TV culture, anchored in the belief that ordinary or 'everyday' people, inarticulate though they may be, and with all the baggage of messy personal lives, are truly compelling public figures.
Palin was the political equivalent. A figure who refracts national identity as it is shaped by the culture's most powerful medium. Authentic, populist and dismissive of sophistication in thought and action."
"Do you remember that uniquely American political phenomenon Sarah Palin? Of course you do, but you have been hearing and seeing much less of her lately. And no wonder...
A Washington Post/ABC News poll a week ago found that her approval ratings among Republicans had plunged since they were previously measured last October.
The numbers of Republicans who are "strongly unfavourable" towards her have risen dramatically, prompting commentators to write of her presidential bid "imploding."
Why is that? John Doyle, TV reviewer at Canada's Globe and Mail, has a theory:
"It was television that destroyed Sarah Palin, just as it made her... The arrival of Palin as a major political figure in 2008 was an emanation of the reality-TV culture, anchored in the belief that ordinary or 'everyday' people, inarticulate though they may be, and with all the baggage of messy personal lives, are truly compelling public figures.
Palin was the political equivalent. A figure who refracts national identity as it is shaped by the culture's most powerful medium. Authentic, populist and dismissive of sophistication in thought and action."
