Posted on 09/27/2017 5:00:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week Jill Abramson, the estimable former executive editor of The New York Times, whom I’ve always admired and never criticized, contended that I had been “stoking” the idea that the NYT had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton.
That is false.
What I have argued, repeatedly during the campaign and most recently nine days ago in an item about Hillary Clinton’s new book, is that the Times very badly erred in its wild over-coverage of the Clinton email “issue,” and that this distorted coverage was, in turn, one of many factors leading to Donald Trump’s elevation to the presidency.
Here’s an example of the kind of thing I had in mind: the blow-out front-page treatment in the Times, just 10 days before the election, of the “Comey letter” on Clinton’s emails....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Puhleeeeze!
The members of the media have such an overinflated concept of themselves and their “influence!””
If you just didn’t tell people how bad I am, I would have won!
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