“In Sarah Palin we get the entire package – important news and silly news wrapped up into one great big ratings phenomenon. We get politics, since she is at least ostensibly a political figure. We get world events, because she says funny things about Russia. We get crises because, for all intents and purposes, the threat of her taking national office is a crisis in and of itself, and the media loves to hang that over our head.”
– E.D. Kain

(The rest of the article, which describes Sarah Palin’s symbiotic nature of modern media and celebrity, is well worth your time. As is pretty much everything E.D. Kain writes.)