In his Washington Post column on Sarah Palin's post-election media blitz, Howard Kurtz perpetuates the myth that Palin "never held a news conference" as a vice-presidential nominee. According to CBS News, she held a full-scale press conference on October 17:
"For the first time since becoming a candidate for the vice presidency in late August, Sarah Palin held an on-camera press conference with her full travelling press corps on the short flight from Ohio to Indiana this afternoon."
Today, Palin held a short press conference in Miami where she is attending the Republican Governors Association meeting. The first reporter to pose a question asked: "During the campaign, you never held a news conference, which I believe was unprecedented. What's changed?"
Palin replied that she doesn't want to talk about campaign strategy. Perhaps she didn't want to embarrass the reporter by pointing out that his question was based on a faulty premise.
