Washington Post, New York Times: Looking for help in smearing Sarah Palin

First up, the WaPo:

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.

And the Times:

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.

No sense yet whether anyone would be paid.

How do you think this will go for Ms. Palin?

Comments

[ME]

I don't think there will be anything that will be damaging, but they will do their best to make it look as though it is. Anyone can twist the words of someone and make a story out of it.

This just goes to show ya how biased NYT and WP are. Too bad they didn't expend that much time researching Obama when he ran for President instead of spending on their time burying stories that would damage his campaign.

[RandomThoughts]

Out of all the juvenile asininity perpetrated by the MSM against Palin, this is a new low. Begging for reader volunteers to "to analyze, contextualize, and research [her] emails?"

Once upon a time, journalism meant "news reports presented factually without analysis." Where's the fun in that though? Where's the ability to mock, smear, and slander someone you hate? And how much easier if you don't have to do any of the information sorting yourself!