This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants
Hillary Clintons supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters are incapable of covering her positivelyor even fairly. While it may be true that the political press doesnt always write exactly what Clinton would like, emails recently obtained by Gawker offer a case study in how her prodigious and sophisticated press operation manipulates reporters into amplifying her desired messagein this case, down to the very word that The Atlantics Marc Ambinder used to describe an important policy speech.
The emails in question, which were exchanged by Ambinder, then serving as The Atlantics politics editor, and Philippe Reines, Clintons notoriously combative spokesman and consigliere, turned up thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2012 (and which we are currently suing the State Department over). The same request previously revealed that Politicos chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, promised to deliver positive coverage of Chelsea Clinton, and, in a separate exchange, permitted Reines to ghost-write an item about the State Department for Politicos Playbook newsletter. Ambinders emails with Reines demonstrate the same kind of transactional reporting, albeit to a much more legible degree: In them, you can see Reines blackmailing Ambinder into describing a Clinton speech as muscular in exchange for early access to the transcript. In other words, Ambinder outsourced his editorial judgment about the speech to a member of Clintons own staff.
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