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Hillary Clinton

Her Sister

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2. Media wanted this to be a "game changer"

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Jul 5, 2016, 06:43 PM

Jul 2016

The problem was that the specifics of the email saga never actually suggested any of that. Instead, we witnessed a wide lens example of the press projecting its misgiving and disdain for a candidate onto an unfolding news story and then treating it as something it clearly was not: a game changer.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/05/months-media-speculation-about-clinton-criminality-all-naught/211342?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-All+%28Media+Matters+for+America%29

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low points of email coverage: NYTclaiming Clinton target of criminal inves, WP claiming 147 agents [View all] riversedge Jul 2016 OP

Bush White House announced that as many as 5 million emails, covering a 2year span, had been lost" Her Sister Jul 2016 #1

Media wanted this to be a "game changer" Her Sister Jul 2016 #2

Maureen Dowd has always had an irrational hatred NastyRiffraff Jul 2016 #3

Jealousy? caquillo Jul 2016 #4