A nation in shock: The Palin emails debut

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The Palin emails released today

The fun begins tomorrow as the long-awaited Sarah Palin emails become public. A source close to MMA tells us that the major news outlets have hired additional help to sift through and analyze the latest nonsense from the fantasy world of Sarah Palin. Some outlets have opened Twitter accounts to ask for volunteer opinions of this long delayed trove of digital correspondence between The Palin and a whole bunch of state officials.

Major news outlets getting a jump on the Palin fun

The New York Times, the Grey Lady, is also getting in on the fun, asking readers to help investigate the Palin emails on their politics blog The Caucus.

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. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate.

If you requested copies of the Palin emails, they will cost you three cents a page. That adds up to $725.97. They will come in five 55 pound boxes.

The Washington Post, on its blog The Fix, has a post today entitled “Help analyze the Palin emails.” They are limiting the participants to 100, who will be working in small teams to uncover any important information:

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.

Here’s what their request form looks like:

The Palin herself has commented on the email release, saying that everything has already been told, and there are no skeletons in her closet, however she did Mike Wallace:

“A lot of those e-mails obviously weren’t meant for public consumption,” she said, and people who read them will “never truly know what the context of each one of the e-mails was.”

No doubt this story is bound to become seriously political, and it will happen fast. Judging by the comments over on Politico and other sites, there are plenty of opinions coming in from both sides regarding the release. Some say that this is an example of the liberal media continuing to hound someone they don’t like. Other folks say that a transparent government is essential to democracy, and if Palin has nothing to hide, she shouldn’t be worried.

What do you think? Your thoughts on the Palin emails are welcomed so don’t forget to leave a comment.

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