Why are 17 news orgs in Alaska today?

  It's really too much. 
  I mean, seriously.
  Palin's emails are released today and news organizations salivate over poring over the pounds and pounds of paper, hoping to find some scathing out of context element to claim this private citizen did something unethical, illegal or dishonest.
  Meanwhile the president is destroying the economy, bit by bit. Industries are being damaged, destroyed or moved.
  Yet SEVENTEEN news organizations are glomming over these emails, hoping to create gossip or further discourage Palin from running for president, something she hasn't even decided to do yet.
  The whole world can be going to hell, but NBC will be sure to have their reporter sifting through three year old emails of a 2 and 1/1 year governor. Yet Obama's shady connections and incredibly bad economic decisions are unexplored and "unexpected."
  Jacobsen discusses the circumstances surrounding the trashing of Palin and now the MSM's unseemly use of the public as journalists/muckrakers to dig through the "Irresistible" "treasure trove":

I get so infuriated when Republicans pile on Sarah Palin not over policy but through personal insult because these people don't seem to understand that they are joining in a mob which eventually will come around to beat down their own favorite candidate.  And as of today, it has become even more of a feeding frenzy as the elites of the mainstream media have given up any pretense of neutrality or news reporting, and literally are forming mobs of anti-Palin readers in a joint effort to take her down.

For two and one-half years the mainstream media, entertainment industry, and left-blogosphere have been perfecting how to destroy a Republican presidential nominee, and they have been practicing on Palin.  Those tactics, including the complete fabrication tying Palin to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, know no bounds.

  Powerline also deplores the MSM's fascination with tearing down Palin:

No doubt these efforts will generate a lot of nonsense. Lost in the shuffle will be the brilliant record that Sarah Palin amassed in her brief tenure as governor. There are no secrets about what she did or how she did it, and the emails will be, at most, footnotes. But they will give liberals an opportunity to deflect attention from Palin's actual accomplishments to faux conspiracy theories and "scandals," none of which will go anywhere, but which will contribute to the smearing of Sarah Palin. Which is, obviously, the point.

  Here a writer for Yahoo writes in hope of having much fodder to dribble out over the next few weeks/months/years, depending on how long she's on the scene:

Seventeen news organizations and individuals are in Juneau today to begin combing through the messages, which are spread out among 85 boxes that reportedly weigh 50 pounds each. That means Palin's messages are likely to be more than just a one-day story. 

  So basically news organizations have no money because no one trusts them anymore and no one wants to pay for news but they have enough time and money to send people (more than one per organization, no doubt) to Alaska to spend days going through old emails.
  And they say she's stupid.