It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Just Being Hammered by the Press

[riversedge]

It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Just Being Hammered by the Press

—By Kevin Drum
| Thu Sep. 17, 2015 12:48 PM EDT


Nate Silver takes a quantitative look at Hillary Clinton's headlines since July 24 and concludes that she's just getting hammered. The calendar on the right shows the near-daily punches she's taking:

Since Friday, July 24 — I’ll talk about the significance of that date in a moment — there have been 13 mornings when Clinton’s email server was a major story, seven mornings when her bad polling numbers were a major story, and seven mornings when speculation about Biden running was a major story....By contrast, I identified just one morning since July 24 when a favorable headline for Clinton gained traction on Memeorandum.

....What changed? July 24 was the morning after The New York Times reported that “a criminal investigation” had been launched into whether Clinton had “mishandled sensitive government information” on her email account. That report turned out to be mostly erroneous; the Times later appended an editor’s note to the article, which is about as close as a newspaper will get to retracting a story. Still, the email story was back in the news after several months when there hadn’t been much reported about it. And subsequent stories about the investigation into Clinton’s email server, from the Times and other news outlets, have proved to be better-reported than the Times’s initial misfire..................

[Chemisse]

1. Every single morning, on my way to work, Morning Joe spends at LEAST 15 minutes

bad-mouthing Hillary about the emails. It just goes on and on and on. I switch the radio to CNN as soon as he starts, and won't go back until or unless he stops.

[restorefreedom]

2. anhhh good ol nate

he isn.t biased or anything...

[Hortensis]

5. Please consider that if they take Hillary out, they may move on to someone you like.

ALL the major media are managed by extremely well paid, powerful men and owned by major corporations, whose actions are directed by billionaires who like things as they are while they're acquiring yet more money and power.

Bernie is NOT their man.

[restorefreedom]

7. unfortunately that will come

i think as he climbs further into frontrunner position, hillary or no, they will hit him hard. your description of the media people is spot on

[leftofcool]

11. They won't take her out.

[ellie]

12. Agreed

I think people don't trust the media and will see it as more of the same Clinton bashing.

[frylock]

8. Correct the 538

[jfern]

10. It's pretty obvious he hates Sanders

[winter is coming]

3. Interesting that speculation about Biden running is considered "negative press"

for HRC. I guess everything really is about her.

[Godhumor]

4. When it is framed as Biden might run because HRC had problems then yes

That would be negative press.

[HereSince1628]

6. She's willing and able to buy advertising...they're just trying to help her make that decision.

[kelliekat44]

9. And not the press only. It's their professional family value. nt