Posted on 04/28/2018 9:04:22 AM PDT by blam
In an interview with Slate staff writer Isaac Chotiner, New York Times campaign reporter and Chasing Hillary author Amy Chozick discussed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat — and complained how the media did not do enough to promote her agenda. Chotiner needled Chozick about a passage in her book that highlighted the public thirst for knowledge of Clinton’s email scandal, saying, “There was an insatiable appetite for email-related stories. I can’t explain it exactly except to compare it to a fever that spread through every newsroom and made us all salivate over the tiniest morsels.”
Chotiner asked, “What role do you think the Times had in how big a story it became,” while Chozick specified that it was in regards to all media outlets, not just the one at which she was employed:
I think a lot of the furor over the emails came from cable news and what was feeding cable, so I want to make clear that that section wasn’t just about the Times.
Look, I understand Hillary’s supporters complaining about the veracity and volume of stories around the email server. But I think it’s hard to say that the leading candidate for the presidency of the United States being under FBI investigation is a nonstory, which seems like what some of her supporters have argued. You can debate the legitimacy of the FBI investigation, but it was definitely a big story.
Of the chaos before the election, Chozick lamented that it was simply “impossible to get other sympathetic stories to break through in the environment we were in,” especially amidst coverage of the Clinton e-mails that she characterized as “voracious.”
Unsatisfied, Chotiner pressed the point that, regardless of what else had been happening, the New York Times could still have plastered sympathetic stories about Clinton
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What happened to the media reporting the news?
PROMOTING?
Campaign finance violations? lol
The messages were not communicated by the media.
Donald was busy telling his supporters his message, in huge events in state, after state, after state. That is a fact.
Huge.
Hillary was being promoted by the media.
Just goes to show you, which one, people actually believe.
Amy making Uncle Walter proud, no doubt, as Hillary's apologist.
95% of so called Journalists are self identified Democrats / Liberals / Progressives.
Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.
Unbelievable
Nope.
No bias there.
Choitner=Chozick alleee sameee!
It’s time for “the media” to go.
Most MSM failed America in 2016.
Delusional.
and THAT, is truly and exactly what they think the media's job is, to promote and deliver the RAT agenda
No kidding! This is very telling. The dems EXPECT the media to promote their agenda??!! President Trump promoted his own agenda, as any candidate should.
If Hillary had spent less time bashing Trump, maybe she could have promoted her agenda. What the heck was her agenda, anyway? Oh yeah, don’t get caught.
And let us never forget the media (CNN) handing her the debate questions. If that ain’t help, I don’t know what is.
The media did not fail Hillary in 2016.
Hillary failed Hillary. In a most spectacular manner.
The msm were cheerleaders with uniforms and pom poms for Cankles.
The communications department of the dnc they were.
If the shtf, these people will not be immune to what happens.
5.56mm
“Why am I not 50 points ahead?, you might ask”, she screeched like finger nails on a chalk board.
I remember there was this other guy running against Hillary. And that guy was the target of a LOT of bad press. At one time, he was down 25% in the polling compared to Hillary. SNL made fun of him. Hillary said his followers were deplorable. All the pundits said he was insane or at least unfit to be President.
I know it It wasn’t Bernie Sanders. But who was that guy?
NOT ENOUGH???
2016 was the same except Hillary was being dragged by the press instead of being carried and Trump was in much better electoral shape but being shackled by the GOPe.
I don’t remember her having an agenda other than trying to stay out of jail.
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