Each packet of 24,199 emails required six boxes worth of paper weighing 113kg. No word on how many media organisations ended up sending representatives to up their bundle, but the number might be smaller than one would expect for such a big scoop: Alaska’s capital Juneau is the only place to obtain the emails, and it’s accessible only by boat or aeroplane.
Has no one in the entire government of Alaska heard of Mediafire? Or Dropbox? Or even P2P? The SF Gate reports: “The state said it was not practical to provide electronic versions of the emails.” That might make some small amount of sense, if the government had originally obtained the emails as skyscrapers of paper. But Sarah Palin gave them the emails on a CD. They couldn’t have just made copies and mailed them?
It’s as if they’re purposefully harming the environment, but stopped short of using condor beaks to etch it into wild panda bear hides. [SF Gate]Image courtesy of Manufacturer.com
argon2000
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 7:48 AMSo much for saving threes
Nodeity
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 9:29 AMThis is preposterous…! So Palin Gave them CD’s and they were all printed out on paper…! Bullshit…!!
Chord Scott
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 9:55 AMIt’s as if they don’t want media organizations to be able to easily draw attention to the *content* of the emails.
Or, more likely, there were one or two they really didn’t want the media to find. I mean really, who’s going to count throught them to check that everythings there?
…*shrug* just seems pretty silly, really; I mean, I have this notion that if Palin is elected to the presidency then the country has bigger things to worry about than the content of her emails. (But… someone has checked that the emails include actual content, right?)