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This article, which you wish to denigrate, is journalism unlike a lot of pundit-type speculation that goes on in Salon. The author spoke to real people and quoted them directly. Yes, much of it is techinically hearsay, but it is also interesting that an article in the NYT on Palin paints a rather similar picture of her. These are cumulative and as more such articles are printed we get a clearer picture of Palin, just as we have gotten clearer pictures over time on McCain, Bush, Cheney and others.
It is due diligence that has journalists going to Alaska and attempting to find first hand accounts that inform us. We can each weigh how much credence we give these accounts.
Why are on the record statements of ordinary small town folks considered to be less important than unnamed sources that deliberately leak their self-interested items to the Washington Post and the New York Times more valued? Because they are less likely to lie? Hardly.
