NYT, WaPo to readers: Hey, anyone want to help us dig for dirt in Palin’s e-mails?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Hot Air:

An unusual example of media efficiency. There’s a huge new supply available of her e-mails as governor and an eternally huge demand among Palin-hating liberals for new dirt on her. If you’re a cash-strapped editor, why not match one to the other and let the market do your work for you? Palin derangement is like the wind, or the sun: All the media has to do is harness it to provide a limitless supply of productivity.

Just think, if she runs for president, they might be able to outsource whole stories to their liberal readership instead of just document analysis. Then again, they’re basically doing that already.

More than 24,000 e-mail messages sent to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday. Join The Post in digging through them. We are looking for 100 organized and diligent readers who will work alongside Post reporters to analyze, contextualize, and research the e-mails. Think of it as spending some time in our newsroom.

Our hope is that working together, we can efficiently find interesting information and extract new stories that will lead to further investigation. We don’t know what we’ll find, but we want you to be ready and open for the challenge.

The NYT is pulling the same stunt. Am I right to think that this is a novel experiment for major newspapers, one they’re coincidentally conducting on one of their favorite targets? Talking Points Memo used crowdsourcing effectively a few years ago to explore the U.S. Attorneys scandal, but I can’t think of an old-school paper doing a major document dump on its readers and treating it as some sort of joint investigative endeavor. I could be wrong; e-mail us if so and I’ll update. Even if I am, I’m amazed that they’d employ this for Palin, of all people, given the intense criticism it’s going to draw, especially since the Journal and other papers will be reviewing things the traditional way. I guess they figure, after three years of antagonism, why keep up any pretense?
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They're apparently too lazy to do their own dirty work...

[Sabre86]

I know a faux-Conservative forum where the majority of members will be the first to sign up.

[righteousmomma]

I know a faux-Conservative forum where the majority of members will be the first to sign up.

Me too. AND WHY do the liberals/media etc HATE her so much?? According to them she is dumb, uneducated etc etc so why the constant need to totally destroy her??

[NCJim]

I know a faux-Conservative forum where the majority of members will be the first to sign up.

Me too. AND WHY do the liberals/media etc HATE her so much?? According to them she is dumb, uneducated etc etc so why the constant need to totally destroy her??

 

To do thier best to keep her from running. They are afraid of her and know she would beat Obama in a land slide

[Casino67]

JedediahBila Jedediah Bila (Twitter)

So amused by all the media folks waiting with bated breath to read @SarahPalinUSA's emails. You know, because she's so "irrelevant."