The Washington Post Is Sleazy

The Washington Post is sleazy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/help-analyze-the-palin-emails/2011/06/08/AGZAaHNH_blog.html

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.


Asking its readers to help them, The Post, go through the Sarah Palin
emails, shows two things:
1. The media cut backs have hurt their investigative abilities.
2. The Post is being "selective" about who it chooses to go after for
in depth investigations.

The latter is pretty bad given The Post's ombudsman has slammed The
Post for not reporting on educational issues that the Post's parent
company has interest and into potential land deals that will benefit
the parent company of The Post.

I saw this yesterday and a power outage prevented me from writing this
up. But looking at the link, now, check this out:


We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the
Palin e-mails. We've reconsidered our approach and now would like to
invite comments and annotations from any interested readers.

Comments

[Roderick]

I am not sure why anyone is upset.

Palin is a quasi-politician turned celebrity and there were questions about her using her private email for performing official business so the emails would give some insight into what she did while she was in office.

Also Palin is a media creation and with all celebrities the media builds people up to tear them down so Palin is no exception.

It's funny that none of her fans were complaining when the media reports on every tweet, every (ghostwritten) facebook posting, everyone of her critisms of Obama, but let the press explore something potentially negative about Palin and her fans start whining.

[DarkStar]

I don't recall the media ever asking for help to go through documents. This seems like the Hustler owner asking the public for sexual dirt on politicians. It was sleazy.

[Roderick]

Well maybe you had a point in that the cutbacks in the news room is the reason for the request for the public's assistance.

The records are public so anyone who doesn't believe what is found can look at the emails themselves to confirm or contradict someone's findings.

I just read an article that stated that some of the emails may be missing....so