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2016 Postmortem

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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
Thu May 5, 2016, 03:09 PM May 2016

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 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.

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so, Fox, sensing the "news" in this, did an interview with him from jail and had it on last night. pdsimdars May 2016 #1
Probably because they realize it's nothing more than another Dan Rather + Killian docs Tarc May 2016 #2
Yeah joshcryer May 2016 #5
Then why run with it now? NWCorona May 2016 #6
Because he is TimPlo May 2016 #12
Maybe someone bribed or coerced him in some way. Now who would benefit? Hmmm. KittyWampus May 2016 #28
Ha If you think email thing is not true then using That thing is not good idea. TimPlo May 2016 #11
Once again, you have no real idea of what you're talking about Tarc May 2016 #14
now you have truly revealed yourself. grasswire May 2016 #22
How so? Because I can admit when we screw things up? Tarc May 2016 #23
the documents were bad because the secretary subsequently disavowed them. KittyWampus May 2016 #30
That has nothing to do with it Tarc May 2016 #37
I am not goofing up. Dan Rather interviewed the secretary and she said she typed KittyWampus May 2016 #29
yes, we all know that. nt grasswire May 2016 #33
Because Comcast, their owner, fundraises for Hillary. So of course they would sit on this. jillan May 2016 #3
Yup! NWCorona May 2016 #9
Probably because it's not explosive Onlooker May 2016 #4
You better hope that he has no evidence... Human101948 May 2016 #8
If he can describe the content of a single email, she's finished. lagomorph777 May 2016 #32
How many primaries would have gone differently if this story had been reported promptly? tularetom May 2016 #7
That's my feeling as well. nt NWCorona May 2016 #10
How many primaries would've gone differently if the truth of Sanders' tenure as Chairman KittyWampus May 2016 #31
The WHY is self-evident. 99Forever May 2016 #13
The executive/managing editors determine what's newsworthy. oasis May 2016 #15
At that time Clinton had just lost Alaska, Hawaii and WA by big margins GreatGazoo May 2016 #16
The most important thing to MSM is passage of the TPP which Hillary Clinton will facilitate Samantha May 2016 #17
Because NBC serves its masters. Trump, Clinton, all the same to them, the MSM and PTB. CentralCoaster May 2016 #18
Three words: New York primary. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #19
Agreed! NWCorona May 2016 #21
B/C owner of MSNBC, Comcast, is huge HRC donor amborin May 2016 #20
^^^So much this! GreenPartyVoter May 2016 #35
Probably don't want to Dan Rather themselves. n/t JTFrog May 2016 #24
Point taken but in memogate they failed to authenticate the document NWCorona May 2016 #25
Why did the hacker pick a Clinton supporting nbc to talk to? Fool. nt/ trudyco May 2016 #26
Was there anyone else trying that had the appropriate pull? NWCorona May 2016 #27
This article might shed some light FlatBaroque May 2016 #34
Thanks that was good! NWCorona May 2016 #36
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