How the Media Manufactured Hatred of Hillary Clinton

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53. While you are correct about the right wing hatred of Clinton, the media was NOT an innocent

bystander "just reporting the facts, you decide". They actively fostered and exploited it.

I cannot tell you how many times the talking heads would characterize Hillary as "shrill, angry, and never smiles"

The interview with Matt Lauer was a perfect example of the media's double standard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/matt-lauer-forum.html

There are a lot of examples like that, but perhaps the most fatal one was when MSNBC was the first network to report that the "FBI had reopened the email investigation". That was NOT a true statement. Immediately after MSNBC reported that, they then paraded every right wing politician across the television screen, propagating that LIE. Within in an hour CNN and other outlets were reporting the same falsehood.

A few days later, Bret Baier from fox news reported that, "according to his sources in the FBI, an indictment was pending against the Clinton Foundation". That was a LIE, and it was picked up by other news outlets. Two days later, Bret Baier apologized saying his information was incorrect, and he should not had reported that, but the damage was done. In fact, fox news continued to repeat that lie, along with the trump campaign.

There are so many examples of the media being a willing partner in exploiting the Clinton hate, but it even went beyond that. The media conveyed the normalization of that hate, along with racism and anti-Semitism.

One of the most outrageous was when CNN debated for a few minutes the question, "are Jews really human?":

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/21/cnn-reaches-debating-trump-admit-jews-people.html

The media did NOT treat the candidates by the same standards. A Harvard study confirmed that:

https://www.good.is/articles/hillary-clinton-negative-press

The Bill Moyers article goes into depth about this:

http://billmoyers.com/story/last-night-3/