ANALYSIS: Covering the Obama Girls? Use Kid Gloves - 2009-01-30 15:29:29 - Broadcasting & Cable:
"But Ken Layne, managing editor of D.C. gossip blog Wonkette, said the Obama girls' age and public behavior should dictate any coverage.
'Unless the kids are out in public, being cute, we have no real interest in them,' Layne wrote in an email. But he invoked a certain Bush twin to indicate where the blogosphere might reasonably weigh in.
'If they go all Jenna on D.C. in a few years,' he added, 'they are fair game.'
Ultimately, Layne adds, Obama has invited some of the tidal wave of public interest in his family.
'This is the first time since the Kennedys that we've got a young, attractive couple in the White House with adorable little kids,' he wrote. 'Obama knew this going in, and he had no problem deploying his attractive wife and kids for PR reasons-from the opening screen of his campaign Website to his daughters being cute onstage at the Democratic Convention.'"
Come on, they are free reign. I think they should offer just as much scrutiny as they do with anyone else!
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