Tuesday, June 14, 2011

John Stewart Slams 'Lame Stream' Media's Over the Top Coverage of PMail

On "The Daily Show" Monday 6/13/11, Jon Stewart slammed the news media for its (in his mind) over-the-top coverage of last Friday's Sarah Palin e-mail release.

In reference to Palin's' recent bus tour documentary, Stewart asked "Where did [Sarah Palin] get this grossly inflated sense of her own importance, like we're hanging on every word she's ever said or written? ... Oh, right. She got that idea because we are."





Toby Harnden of 'The Daily Telegraph' writes:


The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics.
One can only assume that the Left-leaning editors who dispatched
teams of reporters to remote Juneau, the Alaskan capital, to pore over the emails in the hope of digging up a scandal are now viewing the result as a rather poor return on their considerable investment.
If anything, Mrs Palin seems likely to emerge from the scrutiny of the 24,000 pages, contained in six boxes and weighing 275 pounds, with her reputation considerably enhanced. As a blogger at Powerline
noted, the whole saga might come to be viewed as “an embarrassment for legacy media”.



Read more: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100091820/american-way-sarah-palin-email-frenzy-backfires-on-her-media-antagonists/

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