ON BEING FEMALE IN POLITICAL JOURNALISM.

American Prospect's Dana Goldstein sees a more fundamental flaw:"I'd add that, like John McCain, most members of the campaign press corps just aren't all that interested in or knowledgeable about public policy. Most cover politics, as it's so often been noted, as a sport."McCain, he reminds us, "now opposes Roe v. Wade, marriage equality, comprehensive sex-ed, and doesn't believe condoms prevent the spread of HIV. So if we journalists value skepticism and cynicism so much, we should really be applying some to John McCain."