How Hillary Clinton put the Flint water crisis on the front page
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How Hillary Clinton put the Flint water crisis on the front page
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/20/how-hillary-clinton-made-the-flint-water-story-big-news/
By Callum Borchers January 20
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to the crowd during the King Day at the Dome rally at the South Carolina State House on Monday. She addressed the water crisis in Flint, Mich., after also raising the issue during Sunday's debate. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
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This below is going to sound more cynical than I mean it to, so let’s get a brief disclaimer out of the way: I believe — with very few exceptions — that politicians in both major parties are sincere when they respond to others’ plights.
I also believe that one consideration when politicians decide which plights to respond to (can’t get ’em all) is how their words and actions will play in the media. Put plainly: When you’re running for president, you pick the causes that make sense — both because they're important and because they're politically important.
Hillary Clinton’s selection of the Flint water crisis as her cause of the moment is a savvy media strategy that gives her the look of a compassionate commander-in-chief — one who can help set the news agenda with something other than shock value. In bringing up lead contamination unprompted during Sunday’s debate (she raised it in smaller settings before and after, too), Clinton simultaneously used her status to shine a spotlight on the problem and cast herself as the victims' advocate....................
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