Memo to the Anchorage Daily News

When your state governor gets tapped as VP by a major political party, here’s two suggestions for your news coverage:

1) It helps to spell the name of the presidential candidate correctly: Several national news media are reporting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been chosen by Sen. John McClain to be his vice presidential running mate.

That’s especially true when you spell his name properly the eight following times. (Update: They fixed the error.)

2) Also, I understand that it’s really early morning in Alaska, but seriously, you honestly can’t do better than running six paragraphs (out of nine) from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Associated Press? How is it that they could get a confirmation and you couldn’t? (Update: They’ve taken off the grafs from the Trib and the AP, but the point stands.)

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