2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Why Did NBC News Sit on Explosive Story About Clinton’s Alleged Hacked Email Server For Weeks? [View all]
"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 wouldve 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.