Posted on 06/12/2011 8:52:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Search through Sarah Palin's emails for the major media outlets and report back with any of the dirt you might find in one of the nation's biggest witch hunt's to date.
The media is asking for the public’s help in going through Sarah Palin’s emails, which are posted online. The Palin emails are contained within 24,000 pages, which is an overwhelming job to sift through, even with a large team of people. This tedious and mundane job of sorting through all the Palin emails is being outsourced, or as the Guardian UK calls it “crowd sourced.” Help wanted - please go through Palin’s emails and if you find anything interesting, notify one of the many media sources asking for this help!
The media has started a modern day witch hunt through the technology of the Internet. While the Palin emails are very generic and quite frankly, boring, media outlets want the public to do the leg work of searching through them. This call is not coming from tabloids that are the usual culprits looking for the dirt. The call is coming from the big and respected media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post and Guardian UK.
These big names in the media today are willing to deputize the public as investigative reporters for the sake of finding something in the pages of Palin’s emails. The communications, which are from her time as Governor of Alaska, have proved to be fairly boring to comb through, with the messages containing nothing more than the business of the day for the then governor. Chances are it will continue on this way, because you would think by now if there was some dirt to sling, the media would have been all over it.
Some of the media outlets are publishing short manual type directions on the best way to conduct your search, what to look for and then how to get it to the media outlet for them to look it over.
The Guardian UK is offering a "Crowdsourcing User Guide for Palin Emails." The directions on how to get one or multiple pages to their headquarters are detailed and made user friendly. While the New York Times issued this statement to its readers, it did so before the emails were even released. On Thursday the Times was already gearing up their readers for the Palin emails.
The Times starts of saying that they will be posting the Palin emails online Friday and that these emails cover the Palin tenure as governor of Alaska. Then they go on to say: "We’re asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we’ll know who should get the credit. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate."
The Washington Post also got on the band wagon pre-release of these emails. They too, released a statement on Thursday asking for their reader's help and saying the Palin emails will be posted on their website on Friday. Here is what the Post had to say: "We’ll be posting them (Palin's emails) here, and are inviting you to comment on the most interesting or most noteworthy sections. Please include page numbers and, where possible, a direct excerpt. We'll share your comments with our reporters and may use facts or related material you suggest to annotate the documents displayed on The Post site. We may contact you for further details, by way of your registered e-mail with the Post, unless you specify otherwise in the comments."
This is an unprecedented event in the media, and nothing but a witch hunt. This new shout out for help in sifting through the Palin emails is not seen in a good light for many. Conservative columnist Michele Malkin, said, “Where were all the crowd-sourcing champions at the New York Times and Washington Post when Democrats dumped the thousand-plus pages of the Obamacare and stimulus laws on the American people?” She went on to say, “So perhaps these left-wing organs should simply abandon all pretenses and form a progressive consortium with the Huffington Post and Daily Kos to officially unveil Operation Get Sarah,” Malkin said. “Then they can submit their joint application for the Pulitzer Prize in public-service journalism while mocking Palin for her thin skin,” she said in an interview with the politically website The Daily Caller.
Ann Coulter, author of the new book, "Demonic," said she thinks the Post and Times should focus on something that their readers would find useful. Cliff Kincaid said that these open calls for help attacking Palin show the Times and Post as biased and lazy, according to the Daily Caller website. Kincaid said, “They want dirt on Palin but don’t want to get their fingernails dirty doing the digging. They personally don’t want to spend the time sifting through the material, but are afraid they might miss something that could be interpreted in such a way as to cast Palin in a bad light.
Ashton Kutcher even voiced his opinion on this witch hunt of Sarah Palin by posting a message on his Twitter page, " As much as I'm not a fan of Sarah Palin I find sifting through her emails repulsive and over reaching media #palinemail."
Only the most rabid of the extreme left could miss the ugliness and lack of dignity exhibited by our guardians of journalistic integrity.
The ruling class is scared that a commoner who can't be corrupted might win the presidency. They will fight her every step of the way. This could be the end of their sovereignty. They don't care if they are exposed, once they destroy her they will patch it up somehow.
Sarah says ‘Bring it on’.
Don’t look at me. I don’t like reading my own email.
I think it is well worth mentioning, she is a PRIVATE CITIZEN being targeted.
I think this snooping is dirty and disgusting . . . but I read her email so that I could see what her enemies were looking at. Everything I read in her email confirms that she is the real deal. She is sincere, genuinely pro-life, pro-military, fiscally responsible (spends government money as responsibly as I spend my own money), and she believes in a separation of powers and limited government. She's the most thoroughly vetted politician in history, and she passes in every respect.
Okay you sold me. I'll vote for her. I was going to vote for Obama again.
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