Why Did NBC News Sit on Explosive Story About Clinton’s Alleged Hacked Email Server For Weeks?

[NWCorona]

"Now, this is where things get a little strange. As was noted earlier, NBC News says Lazar made these claims to McFadden during an interview in a Bucharest prison and we know Lazar was extradited to the United States on or about March 31, 2016. So, it stands to reason that McFadden conducted the interview before he was extradited to the U.S. which means NBC News was sitting on these explosive claims for more than one month. Which begs the question, why would a major news network sit on such an explosive allegation — especially when the claim directly relates to a presidential candidate and the biggest story the 2016 presidential election cycle?

Understandably, production on a special might take longer than usual — but given the story — networks have turned interviews around in mere minutes.

The delay cost them what would’ve been a huge exclusive, or at least seemed to prompt them to hurry and put something out as Fox News went with its own story and interview with Lazar late Wednesday. Fox News clearly did their interview with the hacker after he arrived in the United States. As they mentioned, they visited him in a Virginia jail.

We reached out to NBC News for clarification and a spokesman declined to comment at this time"

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/why-did-nbc-sit-on-explosive-story-about-clintons-alleged-hacked-email-server-for-weeks/

I posted about this as soon as the story broke.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511901376

I'm not saying that this dude actually did hack into Clinton's server but his story was definitely news worthy and NBC sat on it until they found out that fox was gonna beat them to the punch.

[pdsimdars]

1. so, Fox, sensing the "news" in this, did an interview with him from jail and had it on last night.

Or I assume it was last night since it just came up on youtube today.

[Tarc]

2. Probably because they realize it's nothing more than another Dan Rather + Killian docs

[joshcryer]

5. Yeah

The guy is nutso.

[NWCorona]

6. Then why run with it now?

[TimPlo]

12. Because he is

[KittyWampus]

28. Maybe someone bribed or coerced him in some way. Now who would benefit? Hmmm.

[TimPlo]

11. Ha If you think email thing is not true then using That thing is not good idea.

The Killian docs where only disproved because a bunch of RW bloggers falsely claimed they where fake because of super script number on 110st(I think that was number). But it turned out after the fact that they found other documents from same office that had same font. So using that to defend Clinton not a good idea.

[Tarc]

14. Once again, you have no real idea of what you're talking about

You may peruse the findings at your leisure; http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/complete_report/appendix_4.pdf

but the gist is that the Dan Rather's documents were produced on a modern computer, not a typewriter of the 1970s. Once in a great while, liberals fuck up and right-wingers are correct. This was one of those times.

[grasswire]

22. now you have truly revealed yourself.

you goofed up.

[Tarc]

23. How so? Because I can admit when we screw things up?

Rather and Mapes thought they had a juicy story on their hands, but they fucked up and ran with bad docs before having them properly vetted.

You, I, and every other Dem/liberal with a clue knows that Bush used his family connections to get posted to the TxANG, far, far away form the front lines of Vietnam, and his superiors knew why this drunken rich bow was there. It would've been nice to prove that, but CBS botched the story.

[KittyWampus]

30. the documents were bad because the secretary subsequently disavowed them.

The information in them was correct but the documents themselves were not the ones she filled out.

Rather should've checked with that secretary first. Then he would have known he was set up.

It had nothing to do with the sort of typewriter those documents were written with.

[Tarc]

37. That has nothing to do with it

4 documents were shown on 60 Minutes. They were found to be forged, that's what killed the story. "Fake but Accurate" is how the rest of the media characterized CBS' attempt; we all know that Bush skated through his National Guard service, and CBS blew it by not authenticating the documents.

[KittyWampus]

29. I am not goofing up. Dan Rather interviewed the secretary and she said she typed

documents LIKE those but which were slightly different.

Dan Rather screwed up and should have interviewed that secretary before he ran with the story. Not after.

He was set up with documents that told the truth but were not authentic.

[grasswire]

33. yes, we all know that. nt

[jillan]

3. Because Comcast, their owner, fundraises for Hillary. So of course they would sit on this.

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2015/06/12/comcast-exec-david-cohen-clinton-fundraiser.html

[NWCorona]

9. Yup!

I don't think they were expecting what they got in that interview.

[Onlooker]

4. Probably because it's not explosive

A jailed hacker hoping to negotiate some sort of plea bargain makes claims without evidence is hardly explosive.

[Human101948]

8. You better hope that he has no evidence...

If he can provide a single email, Hillary is finished.

[lagomorph777]

32. If he can describe the content of a single email, she's finished.

[tularetom]

7. How many primaries would have gone differently if this story had been reported promptly?

Maybe none, but we'll never actually know, will we?

[NWCorona]

10. That's my feeling as well. nt

[KittyWampus]

31. How many primaries would've gone differently if the truth of Sanders' tenure as Chairman

of the Veterans Affairs Committee whilst the scandal unfolded had been widely publicized?

Or his vote to dump nuclear waste on a minority community in Texas… whilst his WIFE got a seat on the Texas board dumping that waste?

[99Forever]

13. The WHY is self-evident.

Corrupt corporations take care of their own.

[oasis]

15. The executive/managing editors determine what's newsworthy.

They'll slide in a story of minimal interest every now and then during news droughts.

[GreatGazoo]

16. At that time Clinton had just lost Alaska, Hawaii and WA by big margins

Clinton was in a major losing streak in that period -- lost 8 out 9

[Samantha]

17. The most important thing to MSM is passage of the TPP which Hillary Clinton will facilitate

Anything that detracts from her campaign that puts her in a precarious light with the voters at this critical time can be saved for another news day, even if it is something of an important national security issue. IMHO

It is all about the money.

Sam

[CentralCoaster]

18. Because NBC serves its masters. Trump, Clinton, all the same to them, the MSM and PTB.

If they wanted to do their job as journalists, they would look like an entirely different entity.

[Lizzie Poppet]

19. Three words: New York primary.

Yet another corporate "news" entity in the bag for Princess Weathervane.

[NWCorona]

21. Agreed!

[amborin]

20. B/C owner of MSNBC, Comcast, is huge HRC donor

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. ^^^So much this!

[JTFrog]

24. Probably don't want to Dan Rather themselves. n/t

[NWCorona]

25. Point taken but in memogate they failed to authenticate the document

That doesn't really apply here and they ran with the same story anyway.

Seems shady to me.

[trudyco]

26. Why did the hacker pick a Clinton supporting nbc to talk to? Fool. nt/

[NWCorona]

27. Was there anyone else trying that had the appropriate pull?

I don't know that answer.

[FlatBaroque]

34. This article might shed some light

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/375116/how-comcast-bought-democratic-party-matthew-continetti


This is a very informative read.

[NWCorona]

36. Thanks that was good!