Ex-Times editor's comments about media bias against Clinton
It's not quite proof of the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary Clinton once bemoaned, but as validations of grievances go, this is pretty good: Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson thinks the Democratic presidential front-runner's private email scandal -- a story that, by the way, the Times broke -- has been overblown. And she thinks the media, in general, have subjected Clinton to a greater level of scrutiny than they would a comparable male candidate.
She does get more scrutiny," Abramson said, adding one possible explanation that she attributed to a former student of hers at Harvard, where she is a visiting lecturer: "We, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate."
Abramson is hardly the first to offer this sort of critique. As Times public editor (and incoming Washington Post media columnist) Margaret Sullivan chronicled last fall, readers and press critics have also accused the paper of covering Clinton with undue harshness -- though not always because of her gender.
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