Gov. Palin: I Can't Take It Any More

Two-account system undercuts public transparency, critics charge

(NEWSER) - Candidate Sarah Palin vowed to be an "open and transparent" governor, but as VP candidate she's drawing unwanted scrutiny with her use of private email to conduct state business, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Although the governor has a state email account, which is archived, she appears to use her private Yahoo account, which is not for state business. More»

54 pages inadvertently left out of first release

(NEWSER) - Alaska released 54 more pages of Sarah Palin's emails yesterday, but it looks like they won't be much juicier than the first 24,199 pages. A state rep says the emails, which are from Palin's first month as governor, were inadvertently left out of the first cache . Most of the newly released emails were sent from aides to Palin, with only a few coming from the governor; the messages were also heavily redacted, the AP notes. More»

...and that's pretty darn good: writing analysts

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin writes like an eighth grader, and that's actually a compliment. Following Friday's massive release of hundreds of emails she wrote as governor, two writing analysts evaluated 60 randomly chosen messages that were at least one paragraph, and determined that Palin wrote them at a grade level between 8.2 and 8.5, reports AOL Weird News . The score is "typical for a corporate executive," says one of the experts. More»

A look at different headlines on day 2

(NEWSER) - And the big Sarah Palin email bombshell is ... nonexistent. As the read-a-thon continues , here's a sampling of different headlines out there:

• Anchorage Daily News : "Emails show criticism put Palin on defensive"
• New York Times : "Palin E-Mails Show Her Combative and Engaged"
• Politico : "Long-lost Sarah Palin surfaces in emails"
• Daily Caller : "Palin emails reveal Trig birther rumors even before election"

Journalists begin plowing through 24K pages

(NEWSER) - Some 24,000 pages of eagerly awaited emails from Sarah Palin’s time as governor have been released, and journalists are diving in—some with public volunteers, notes the Anchorage Daily News . So far, no headlines; indeed, a Palin rep is encouraging “everyone” to read them. The reporters need no encouragement, it seems: Around 30 of them were jammed in a small room in a Juneau state building with three camera crews, all awaiting the boxes, reports the Los Angeles Times . More»