Hillary Clinton
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On September 10th, the Washington Times broke a crucial positive development in the over-hyped Hillary Clinton email story...A day later, BuzzFeed and the Associated Press joined the Washington Times with updated versions of the story....
Considering the frenzied and obsessive news commentary surrounding this issue, one would imagine that such a major development would receive significant media attention. One would be dead wrong.
As of this writing, two days after the story broke, there is no mention of it on the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News or CNN.
Nothing. Total blackout....
(Here, the #HillaryMen post the Front/Home pages of the major media outlets.)
Philosophers and ethicists talk about sins of commission and sins of omission, causing harm by doing what shouldn't be done and causing harm by not doing what should be done.
The corporate media and commentariat are engaging in both sins with respect to Hillary, flooding the national conversation with Rove-funded negative frames then ignoring positive news. The desired effect is to turn the public against Hillary. Disturbingly, it has worked - thankfully, only to a degree.
It is psychologically impossible for the American public to be inundated with character-destroying stories, images, words, and opinions about a single individual without having some of that negativity eventually reflect back and tarnish the individual.
Proof of Hillary Clinton's astonishing strength is that not only is she effectively battling nearly two dozen declared and undeclared candidates, but she is doing it while being savaged by the gatekeepers and purveyors of our national debate.
No other public figure could survive, let alone thrive, under those circumstances. Perhaps the strongest rationale for a Hillary presidency is her indomitable character and her dignity under soul-crushing pressure....
The behavior of the media and pundits during this historic presidential election cycle is quickly becoming a national disgrace.
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Kath1
(4,309 posts)Don't expect it to get any better.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)For some reason, the rules that apply to the Clintons apply to no one else. Romney can delete all of his emails from his time as governor of Massachusetts, Dubya can from his happy time in the White House, and Colin Powell can use a private server ... and that's a-okay with M$M.
The Republican frontrunner is a liar and a blowhard ... that's okay. Kasich and Walker's administrations are riddled with horrendous corruption -- that's okay, too.
John Fugelsang said on the radio Friday that all the contrived Clinton scandal is all about ratings and in the case of the NY Times, about getting hits on their website. The M$M knows there is money to be made in trashing the Clintons.
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)makes you want to . Seriously, how low can the NYT, once a paper in a class by itself, go?
ladym55
(2,577 posts)I get so discouraged because it takes so much work just to get basic information. I used to love and trust the Times and npr. Now I know that they stopped doing their jobs as journalists a long time ago.