Last Updated on April 28, 2018
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is packing her things and moves out of the Governor’s Mansion today, despite any clear reason for why she’s leaving office before the end of her term 18 months from now.
But just when you thought there was nothing redeemable about television, here’s a news flash that might make you turn your set back on:
A survey of television syndicators, the companies that produce and distribute programming, reveals not a single one with a “whiff of interest”  in doing a show with her.
Broadcasting & Cable reports that syndicators do say Palin is “mediagenic,” but then point out that she doesn’t have the skills, appeals to “too narrow” of an audience and “overall is too polarizing” to host a show.  Makes you wonder about some of the other hosts that have had their own shows, doesn’t it?
A survey of syndicators reveals that they believe that Palin, while certainly mediagenic, “does not have the skills,” “appeals to too narrow of an audience” and overall is too polarizing. Not one syndicator indicated a whiff of interest in doing a show with her.
They suggest that if Palin has a TV career ahead of her, it would likely be as a news commentator, and most likely with Fox News.
What’s interesting is that the syndicators don’t discount her because she’s a woman or because she’s Republican; one said they’d snatch up The View’s Elizabeth Hasselbeck in “two seconds.”
That tidbit, I’m sure, still won’t keep the syndicators from being accused of being part of the Vast Liberal Media Conspiracyâ„¢.
If she plans to become a media gadfly, I have to assume that plan involves leaving Alaska. It’s not as though there’s a studio in Wasilla she can pop into whenever the cable bookers want to have her on.
Quite true. I honestly can’t imagine her doing anything else at this point, at least not in the short term.