Palin ‘guidelines’ disavowed

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She’s no longer the chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called ‘governor.’ And in English only, please.

That was the message sent out this week by officials at the Mall of America, who told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’ book tour that they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate by her former title. The guidelines also banned foreign reporters, allowing ‘only English-speaking press.’

But on Wednesday, mall officials said the guidelines were a mistake and apologized to Palin for the mix-up, which they called ‘an internal miscommunication’ that was ‘inadvertently distributed.’

‘That should never have been in any kind of press release,’ said Tina Andreadis, a publicist for HarperCollins in New York, who added that foreign reporters would be welcome at Palin’s Mall of America stop.

‘That’s not the message the governor wants to send out,’ she said.

-- Associated Press