NBC Most Excited by Palin’s E-Mail, Yet Fails to Dig Up Any ‘Bombs

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2011 8:45 AM
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…