Gene Lyons: When the Media Play by "Clinton Rules"

[DeepModem Mom]

Gene Lyons first exposed press lapses he called "the Clinton rules" 20 years ago. For HRC, not much has changed: http://t.co/eqIkGajNRG via National Memo

[OKNancy]

1. everyone should take the time to go to the link and read this fine column. n/t

[quickesst]

2. I'm kicking this thread....

...for more exposure. This part is especially enlightening.

"Actually, Krugman first used the term during the 2008 Democratic primaries to characterize some Obama supporters’ hostility toward Hillary Clinton, an attitude Barack Obama himself appears never to have shared. Social media conversations among Democrats show that something similar is currently happening again among Bernie Sanders supporters, also without his cooperation."

[msrizzo]

3. I've always adored Gene Lyons

He is that rare thing: an honest journalist. Especially appreciate this part.

Why does Hillary so dislike the political media? Because any normal person would, Allen thinks, if her first experience of them was being treated as a suspect in the death of a dear friend (Vince Foster) who’d committed suicide.

Any human being should be able to understand that. Surprisingly, so few do.

[sufrommich]

4. I posted this article in GD/P too. Great article. nt

[yallerdawg]

5. Don't we know it!

“If you are old enough to remember the 1990s,” Krugman wrote, “you remember the endless parade of alleged scandals, Whitewater above all—all of them fomented by right-wing operatives, all eagerly hyped by mainstream news outlets, none of which actually turned out to involve wrongdoing. The usual rules didn’t seem to apply; instead it was Clinton rules, under which innuendo and guilt by association were considered perfectly OK, in which the initial suggestion of lawbreaking received front-page headlines and the subsequent discovery that there was nothing there was buried in the back pages if it was reported at all.”

[mcar]

6. Gene Lyons gets it right again

You should cross-post this in GD . I know, I know, but it needs to be seen far and wide.