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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe media s**t-show is back: Why coverage of Hillary Clinton has been an embarrassment
Hillary Clinton has a reputation for hating the media. The past week shows why that's so easy to understandELIAS ISQUITH
A bit less than a year ago, Politico Magazine released an in-depth piece by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman about Hillary Rodham Clintons long and incredibly fraught relationship with the national, mainstream media. At the time the piece was written, the question of whether Clinton would run for president in 2016 was much less settled than it is today, and according to the pieces authors (who said they conducted dozens of interviews with former or current Clinton insiders) if the onetime secretary of state decided not to run, it would be for one simple reason: her fear and loathing of the political press. Look, she hates you, one anonymous source said to the two reporters. Period. Thats never going to change.
Im too young to have truly experienced the Clinton years. During the late 90s, when the country obsessed over Monica Lewinsky and millions of Americans pretended theyd never even heard of this thing called oral sex, I was more concerned with Pokemon cards and Sarlacci. But after reading through Politicos potted history of the medias treatment of Clinton and especially after witnessing the absurd press conference she held on Tuesday at the U.N. about what has been called, with a fitting laziness, emailgate I must admit something. Despite finding her views on economic and foreign policy to be lacking, when it comes to her antipathy for the media, I cant blame Clinton. Not one tiny bit.
Now, at the risk of proving Nietzsches maxim about the abyss true, I want to make something clear upfront: My feelings in this regard are inspired more by the behavior of the media than that of Hillary Clinton. I agree with those who say theres something problematic at least about her choice to use a personal email account during her tenure at the State Department. I agree with those who consider it a sign that Clinton is no ally in the effort to increase government transparency. I think her explanation that she used her own address as well as her own server because she thought itd be more convenient is risible. And I find her claim that the 30,000 emails she deleted were about personal things, like yoga and family vacations, improbable at best.
But if I were to put these qualms on a scale, and measure them against the contempt Ive felt while watching the media cover this scandal, I doubt theyd carry even half as much weight. Because while Im certainly used to seeing my colleagues in the political press devote their time and energy to cynical, superficial stories that few people outside the politico-media elite will bother to read, Ive never seen them do it with such unabashed gusto. Ive never seen them be quite so shameless about placing themselves, and their relationship with a politician, at the front-and-center of the national stage. Ive never seen them be so gleeful and self-conscious about creating a circus, either. It is, quite simply, embarrassing.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/12/the_media_st_show_is_back_why_coverage_of_hillary_clinton_has_been_an_embarrassment/
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The media s**t-show is back: Why coverage of Hillary Clinton has been an embarrassment (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
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oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)1. Very grateful for my 'mute' button!
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)2. behold the 'vast route wing conspiracy'.