Former Chilkat Valley News reporter Bill McAllister is quoted in a Nov. 21 New York Times Magazine article about Sarah Palin. McAllister, a former Palin press secretary who now works as a spokesman for the state Department of Law, said the national media “grossly mischaracterized” Sarah Palin “in a way he found frustrating and maddening.” McAllister said he found Palin, early in her career as governor, as “bright, easygoing and exceedingly popular with the…