Palin = Road Runner
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Posted on 06/10/2011 7:23:29 PM PDT by tobyhill
News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released on Friday, prompting some critics to accuse the news media of overkill at best and vigilantism at worst.
The debate over the exhaustive efforts to analyze the e-mails by news outlets like MSNBC.com, The New York Times and The Washington Post erupted on Friday with the kind of partisan ferocity that tends to accompany anything related to Ms. Palin.
Another near certainty whenever Ms. Palin is involved: a media spectacle.
Scores of journalists descended on Juneau this week in preparation for the release of the e-mails. MSNBC.com deputized 40 volunteers, chosen with the help of the League of Women Voters and the Retired Public Employees of Alaska. They were the reinforcements for the team of two journalists from the Web site and six more from NBC News who flew to Juneau.
The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed with too many applicants. Unable to screen all of them, the paper abandoned the plan late Thursday, opting instead to invite reader comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sarah will have the last laugh. She always does. The commie ‘RAT toadies in the state run “media” are a bunch of fools.
CYA. Same paper that did it found nothing so they’re “crucifying” themselves. Only in liberal land.
In an effort to look balanced, the NYT ends up referring to themsleves in thrid person,lol.
I knew I needed a faster computer.
Please pull, repeat
Palin = Road Runner
Boo-frickin’-hoo. They found out there’s no “there” there, so now they’re crying about all the press THEY devoted to it.
Please do not alter article headlines.
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