Brian Wallace/Associated PressReporters loaded boxes containing thousands of pages of Sarah Palin?s e-mails from her time as Alaska?s governor on Friday in Juneau. News organizations that pored over nearly 25,000 pages of e-mail correspondence relating to Sarah Palin on Friday focused on her selection as Senator John McCain?s running mate in 2008, her relationship with the media and her style of governing.
Many news outlets ? what Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, calls the ?lamestream media? ? sent reporters to Juneau for the release of the e-mails by the state government in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
The result? After a day of frantically poring over the correspondence, with the help of millions of online readers, there were no major revelations but plenty of attempts to dissect the background of a woman who might yet run for president.
A review in the morning of Web sites for news organizations and major blogs found that most gave the story prominent play, with large headlines and, in some cases, multiple articles.
One exception: Fox News, where Ms. Palin is a paid commentator. The network?s home page offered one link to its article with the headline ?Palin E-Mails Reveal Harsh Scrutiny After VP Pick.? It came above an article about a fight on an airliner and below one about Turkish preparations for elections.
Many articles focused on the period just before and after Ms. Palin was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
CNN?s headline said ?E-Mails Show GOP Circling Palin in Late 2008.? The Huffington Post wrote about ?Sarah Palin and John McCain?s Courtship.? The Daily Beast led its site with ?Bush, Palin Joked about VP Rumors.?
The New York Times�focused on that period as well. The article, headlined ?In E-Mails, a Glimpse From Inside Palin?s Rise,? noted that Ms. Palin seemed genuinely surprised by Mr. McCain?s choosing her.
?Can you believe it!? she wrote in response to a staff member?s ?Wow governor? message that Friday in late August when the choice was announced. ?He told me yesterday ? it moved fast! Pray! I love you.?
The Anchorage Daily News, which served as Ms. Palin?s hometown newspaper throughout her time in the governor?s office, focused on the many criticisms of the media sprinkled throughout the e-mails. ?E-Mails Show Criticism Put Palin on Defensive,? a headline said. ?A massive trove of e-mails released Friday from Sarah Palin?s time as governor show a chief executive who was engrossed with countering her critics and increasingly upset at news coverage as she vaulted into international celebrity,? the paper wrote.
Politico focused on what it saw as a crucial difference between Ms. Palin?s political style during her governorship and her approach to politics now. ?Long-Lost Sarah Palin Surfaces in E-Mails,? the headline said.
?Once, there was a different Sarah Palin,? Politico wrote in its article. ?She was hands-on and averse to partisan politics. She championed openness in government and had normal relations with the media. She was a little starstruck by her interactions with national politicians but unafraid to do battle with the chief executives of the world?s largest oil companies.?
The Washington Post picked up that theme as well, saying that the e-mails offered?vivid new color and fresh details to the complicated public portrait of Sarah Palin, who displayed many of the same strengths, and shortcomings, as Alaska governor that she would later bring to the national political stage.?
Some news organizations had fun with the e-mail release. The Guardian in Britain used one word ? ?Unflippinbelievable? ? as their headline, a reference to the fact that Ms. Palin used that phrase several times in e-mails during her time as governor.
Drudge Report offered several links, most focused on the media?s handling of the document release. ?PRESS HUNTS MAMA GRIZZLY??� one headline said. Another said, ?DEAD TREES: 30+ reporters scour 275 lbs. of paper, 24,000 e-mails??
And then there was this one, from The Detroit News, which apparently decided to go for the local angle.
?Search Shows Few Michigan References in Palin E-Mails,? the paper?s headline said. ?Concerns over pipeline safety and a job hire recommendation were the only two Michigan connections in thousands of Sarah Palin e-mails released today.?
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Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/news-outlets-pounce-on-palin-e-mails/
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