WestVirginiaRebel Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 NY Times: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. Were news organizations Dumpster diving, as one outraged reader of The Washington Post put it? News outlets insisted that they were trying to be as thorough and efficient as possible while reporting on information that the public was entitled to know. “This is not a witch hunt,” said Jim Roberts, an assistant managing editor at The Times. “There are 25,000 documents here, and we can use all the eyeballs we can get.” The Times, like The Post and others, uploaded the e-mails onto its Web site and invited readers to sift through them and comment on anything compelling they found. (Because the state of Alaska made the e-mails available only on paper, news organizations had to scan them to make them viewable online.) “From our perspective, we’re just providing the public records to the public, who own them,” said Bill Dedman, a reporter for MSNBC.com who was helping lead his Web site’s effort. “The people of Alaska will figure out what news or insights they find in their public records.”________They're just providing a public service... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NCJim Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBN8IJ8wE0Q&feature=youtu.be Mark Levin - I'm Calling For Obama,Biden,Reid And Pelosi And Staff To Release There Email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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