The AP Announcing Clinton's "Victory" Was an Embarrassment to Journalism and U.S. Politics

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11. The author of the article defeats his own argument

On the one hand, it admits that "Sure, Hillary has more votes, and yes, she was going to win eventually." He also acknowledges "we’ve known" Hillary Clinton would be the presumptive nominee "for a long time."

Those admissions completely undercut his argument that one person "manufactured" Clinton's win or that reporting she had actually reached the threshold everyone had known "for a long time" that she would reach wasn't newsworthy.

Plus, if as he admits, Clinton was going to win eventually and it was long known that she would be the "presumptive nominee" how does acknowledging it when it happens change much of anything. If it was known on Sunday, or Saturday or the week before that she was going to be the presumptive nominee, wouldn't that knowledge alone be dampening turnout? Wouldn't the fact that Clinton won handily in two races over the weekend had something to do with it? Should the press not have reported those results because it might "dampen" turnout?

What if on Saturday night, after the win the VI put Clinton closer to the nomination, AP had reported 40 new SD commitments, putting her over 2383? Would that have been journalistically wrong to do?

No. Journalists go out, gather information and report it. That's what they do. If anything, the fact that the press didn't sit on the information that they had is more consistent with the notions of an independent press than one that tries to manipulate a story by sitting on information.