Talk about citizen journalism at the Washington Post and the New York Times! First the Post:
Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday. That’s a lot of e-mail for us to review so we’re looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those e-mails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release.
We are limiting this to just 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively in small teams to surface the most important information from the e-mails. Participants can join from anywhere with a computer and an Internet connection. Read more about how it will work.
If you need inspiration before getting started, take a look at what to expect from the e-mail drop. For micro-updates as tomorrow unfolds, check out our new Twitter feed.
And speaking of copycat journalism, here’s the Gray Lady:
On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on nytimes.com starting on Friday afternoon E.D.T.
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.
Speaking very personally, I am so proud of our nation’s great newspapers, enlisting the aid of our tovarishes from coast to coast in this very worthy undertaking. For Sarah Palin — currently feigning to be a “private citizen” — poses such a threat to the Peoples’ Republic that she simply must be stopped by any means necessary.
Won’t you please help us to destroy her? What — you got something better to do?
clearly Palin the one that scares the leftwingers including the liberally sycophantic committed Obama propaganda nuts in media like NYT and WaPo, totally scared, agitated, and witless. The main reason to nominate her on the R ticket.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGee, just like they did with the fraud exposed by the global warming email leak. Oh wait, they tried to ignore those and refused to print any. Hmmmm
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat surprises me is that the Post and Times didn't just call Move On, Media Matters and the other lefty groups. I'm sure the phone numbers are on speed dial.
24,000 emails in a little over 2 years? Wow! Someone was busy! That's enough to make ME quit a job.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSeems to me that NRO has done more than its share of trying to destroy Palin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFor the NYT lets all flood them with suggested e-mails.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe comments on each of the websites are about what you would expect, and should be. It is amusing that the total number of comments on the WaPo website keeps shrinking as they delete them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre the comments supportive of this farce or against it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is "slime ball" journalism at it's worst. Could it be that Weiner is a paragon of virtue compared to the editors of the WaPo and NYT??
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn related news; Dan Foster will have a busy weekend.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBeat me to it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBeautiful, John Galt.
I wanted to laugh but realized you may be right!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseInteresting that this post, and comments on it, are built upon the premise that there will be things in these emails that can "destroy" Sarah Palin.
Her own words, perhaps?
But I thought she had nothing to hide....
We shall see, won't we?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseActually whether she is "destroyed" by the email release depends as much on the imaginations of the "journalists" that report on them than it does on the actual content.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDo a Google search on "Most transparent administration evah!" and get back to me on that "nothing to hide" business....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo, I think it's built on the premise of being creepy, pathetic and desperate.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse@Vonnegut: what are you talking about? You sure aren't reading the same comments I am.
I have absolutely no doubt the Times and Post will find some little thing and it will lead the front page. That's why they are so intent on reading all ~24,000 emails.
It's the fervent, perverse desire to dig up dirt that's disturbing. If only they put this kind of effort together in 2007, digging through the past of one Barack Hussein Obama.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat is 'interesting' is that they are not going after the set of emails that would seem the most apt at the moment and the most likely to produce something newsworthy - those of Representative Anthony Weiner.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOne benefit:
Can their liberal bias get any more transparent? Is there anything remotely similar to this with any other public figure? Someone who is not REMOTELY considered corrupt?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOne little lady with so much e-mail that they want 100 people to help read it. That sure is a lot of writing and reading for a person who leftist pundits say is stupid, ignorant, and lazy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre they basically admitting that their job as journalists--and their business of running newspapers--is dead? Two supposedly preeminent newspapers are asking for their sycophantic Left-wing readers to work for free to help them do basic research?
They're basically no longer anything more than community organizers. The president must be very proud.
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