(Lame Stream) Media frenzy over Palin e-mail release was unusual even for her

The 13,000 Sarah Palin e-mails released Friday provided little new insight about her time as Alaska’s governor. But the frantic effort to obtain the messages, dissect them and post them online served as a watershed moment for the news media, whose zealous approach will no doubt be replicated on future stories.

The spectacle on Friday was unusual even for Palin, who is known for her ability to inspire a media frenzy. Eager to be the first to post the messages online, news outlets — including The Post — dispatched reporters armed with scanners to Juneau for the 9 a.m. release of the e-mails, which were not distributed electronically but in stacks of printed paper.

24 hours later disappointed media figures have already cranked up the spin machine. This elephantine piece of propaganda is a perfect example: disingenuous, misrepresentational, and where those fail, baldly lying. Let's examine this with, oh, I don't know, perhaps with the same scrutiny Palin's emails are receiving?

Point: The 13,000 Sarah Palin e-mails released Friday provided little new insight about her time as Alaska’s governor.

This is an outright lie. 13,000 emails about the day-to-day operations of a Governor and they provide "little new insight"? Hardly. What the reporter is admitting is that there aren't any obvious scandals to report, at least not until somebody can construct one from unpromising material.

Point: Still, the massive deployments hint at the way journalists will tackle large stories in the future.

Anything having to do with 0bama, perhaps? Not a chance.

Point: The crowdsourcing was significant because news organizations have really only used that approach on about a dozen significant stories...

Oh, really? The one example given is a "get Bush" effort similar in tone but not in degree to this "get Palin" frenzy. Has there been a single one pointed at a Democrat? Anyone?

Point: It could be used again as the health-care overhaul phases in, perhaps by issuing a query asking readers to chime in with how their health care has changed, he said.

The elephant in the room here is that it was not used at all to allow public examination of the grotesquely inflated bill that resulted in this change, a bill that was passed unread by nearly everyone voting on it. It isn't as if no one noticed, but if no one in the media admits it, it is as if it doesn't count.

These are the points, then: that (1) this wasn't a new technique pointed at Palin, (2) that it wasn't partisan, (3) that it was all in the healthy interest of an informed public. These points are all lies. The media have conducted a witch-hunt, and the only reason for the smokescreen is that it is so far an unsuccessful one. No marks at all for honesty by the Washington Post, one of the three perpetrators of this clumsy attempt at gang rape. They promise us more to come. That's the only truth in the piece.

The 13,000 Sarah Palin e-mails released Friday provided little new insight about her time as Alaska’s governor.

And thus is revealed the bias and the agenda of the Washington Post.

In fact, a great deal was revealed about Palin in the e-mails. It's just that what was revealed weren't the things that the Washington Post wanted to find. The e-mails revealed the true character of an intelligent, competent, engaged, fair, decent woman trying to do her best in the role of a chief executive of a state, and succeeding.

But that doesn't "fit the narrative," of course.

And thus is revealed the bias and the agenda of the Washington Post.

The Washington "Pest" is justifying their Witch Hunt on Palin calling it Croudsourcing. At the end of the Article, they say they will use it again - strongly hinting they will use it on Republicans (on those against the Presidents Health Care Plan [Obamacare]).

The Lamestream Press is justifying its despicable behavior. And the reason for their despicable behavior is that they are in survivor mode disparately trying to hold on fleeing readers.

And where are they fleeing? FreeRepublic - of Course!

And thus is revealed the bias and the agenda of the Washington Post.

The Lamestream Press is justifying its despicable behavior. And the reason for their despicable behavior is that they are in survivor mode disparately trying to hold on fleeing readers.

And where are they fleeing to? FreeRepublic - of Course!

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