Palin to Allow Media Coverage of Tea Party Speech
The media outlets, however, that will get to report on the event are limited. Convention organizers released a statement today announcing that five press organizations will be granted access to the event: Fox News, Breitbart.com, Townhall.com, the Wall Street Journal and World Net Daily.
"Everyone from a small town newspaper in Iowa to Fox News has asked for press credentials," the statement read. "We have been hard pressed to accommodate all of these requests and do not have the space or resources to support the entirety of the press corp."
Fox and the Wall Street Journal stand out as among the approved news outlets as mainstream organizations both owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The other media outlets are Web sites that present conservative viewpoints. While Fox is often charged with right-wing bias, including the Wall Street Journal on the list could be perceived as "an insult to the Journal's news side, traditionally a smart straight-news operation perpetually a bit irritated to be mistaken for its conservative editorial page," Politico's Ben Smith writes.
Palin, who has been wary of mainstream media in her career as a politician, made her debut as a Fox News contributor this week.
Palin then said she admired George Washington because he was a "statesman."
"He returned power to the people," she said. "Then he went back to Mount Vernon and he went back to his farm," she said, adding that she would like to return to Wasilla, Alaska.
Palin also recently promoted her anti-abortion rights position in the magazine "In Touch," on which she appears on the cover with her son Trig, her daughter Bristol and Bristol's son Tripp.