Daily Archives: June 10, 2011
Palin’s Emails Causes Chaos When Reporters Get Into An Elevator
This is not a bunch of frantic people in Florida trying to get into the room where the trial for murder of Caylee Anthony is taking place. This is a bunch of journalists, photographers are trying to get into an elevator in Juneau to cover the release of Sarah Palin‘s emails.
Photo credit: Via @justin_hart on Twitter. Can you say creepy?
Juneau’s Tour Industry Improved With Media’s Coverage Of Palin’s Emails
It’s a gargantuan lamestream media team effort to gather, scan and publish Governor Palin‘s emails:
About 30 journalists, along with three TV camera crews, had been crammed into a small space in a state administrative building in Juneau on Friday, waiting for the release of boxes filled with 25,000 printed emails stemming from Palin’s tenure as governor.
Nearby, the boxes were stacked up and waiting for representatives of approximately 20 news organizations to grab them and take them from the building in a scene that promised to be fairly chaotic. Each organization was to be given six boxes
“It could be fun,” said the Los Angeles Times‘ Ken Schwenke, who was part of the scrum waiting to rush the room where the boxes were stacked. The state of Alaska is releasing the emails in paper form; several news organizations are scanning them to turn them into electronic, searchable documents.
The Times‘ Data Desk is one of those scanning the documents and posting them online, making each available in a searchable archive.
Readers will have the ability to submit comments and suggestions on the page, or by emailing The Times at documents@latimes.com.
It reminds me of the same media, landing by droves in 2008 to find out more about Sarah Palin and figure out who she was, where she came from and anything and everything about her life. Commenters in The Guardian, Washington Times and Los Angeles Times are getting angrier at this waste of time, to uncover anything that may compromise Sarah Palin and attempt to damage her character and reputation (as if!).
This is enough, America. The same time of scrutiny and vetting is not of interest of any of Republican official candidates for the GOP primaries, nor of Senator Obama‘s emails and his background. Media’s unprecedented addiction and obsession rivals Twilight fans.
Twilight fans drive and fly wherever the movie stars travel, duck and use binoculars to catch any scenes of any movies they make (asides from the saga) and the frustration when there’s extreme lockup and secrecy with their location. Fans tweet and post in Facebook any pictures of their stars, tired from the airport.
Where’s the GOP? Oh mum. Establishment is relaxed waiting for the media to do the dirty deed for them. Keep it up, media! Keep it up, GOP!
Related articles
- Palin emails to be released, crowdsourcing looms (msnbc.msn.com)
- Palin Emails to be Released (kaystreet.wordpress.com)
The UK’s Guardian Is Stationed In Juneau Sifting Through Palin’s Emails
This just keeps getting better and better:
About 30 journalists, along with three camera crews, had been crammed into a small space in a state administrative building in Juneau, Alaska Friday, waiting for the release of boxes filled with 25,000 printed emails stemming from Sarah Palin‘s tenure as governor.
The boxes were stacked up and waiting for the 20 or so news organizations to grab them and take them from the building in a scene that promised to be fairly chaotic.
“It could be fun,” said the Los Angeles Times‘ Ken Schwenke, who was part of the scrum waiting to rush the room where boxes upon boxes were stacked. The state of Alaska is releasing the emails in paper form, which means that news organizations will have to scan them to turn them into electronic, searchable documents. Each organization was to be given six boxes.
There’s an actual timeline on their work, how hard they’re working on the stack of emails; they’re scanning all of them and then release some of them. Still complaining that they believe the juiciest ones are kept under wraps.
Scum.
