juliaoceania -> RE: The Palin Emails (6/13/2011 11:15:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity Since no one else is posting anything on topic... From Newsbusters: quote:
NBC Most Excited by Palin’s E-Mail, Yet Fails to Dig Up Any ‘Bombshells’ Much of the media made fools of themselves with their excited obsession over the release of Sarah Palin’s gubernatorial e-mails, but NBC News went the furthest, sending, as did CNN, reporters to Juneau as the network uniquely led its Friday night newscast by hyping the non-news as a major event. “On the broadcast tonight,” anchor Lester Holt heralded, “mail call. Thousands of pages of e-mail from Sarah Palin's time as Governor. What we're learning about her tonight.” Following a story from “national investigative correspondent” Michael Isikoff in which “MSNBC.com investigative reporter” Bill Dedman had the gall to complain “we waited longer for these records than Sarah Palin was Governor, almost a thousand days,” NBC’s David Gregory recognized, in an understatement: “As Mike and his team are finding, not a lot of bombshells here.” ABC also got into the act, but didn’t send any on-air personnel to Juneau. On Saturday’s World News, however, John Berman trumpeted his big discovery proving Palin’s hypocrisy: “While these days Palin is criticizing parts of Michelle Obama’s national battle against obesity...she once e-mailed an aide asking for ‘low carb foods...just don’t want the kids to have too much sugar/white carb stuff.’” That should pretty much discredit her. [image]http://www.newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/NBCNN-Isikoff-2011-06-10-240.jpg[/image] CBS showed the best news judgment, not mentioning the Palin e-mails on Friday or Saturday’s CBS Evening News. Isikoff’s find – Palin once praised something candidate Barack Obama said: “Among the e-mails, this exchange from Palin to an aide written a few weeks before she was picked by McCain, praising then-candidate Obama’s energy policy speech. ‘He gave a great speech this morning in Michigan – mentioned Alaska,’ adding, ‘we need to take advantage of this and write a statement saying he's right on.’ Then in a later e-mail telling an aide, ‘he did say ‘yay’ to our gas line. Pretty cool. Wrong candidate.’ Palin later became one of Obama's fiercest critics on energy policy.” Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/06/13/nbc-most-excited-palin-s-e-mail-yet-fails-dig-any-bombshells#ixzz1PBGtIQTZ This point was made by me on page three[8|]
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