This is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants

[BernieforPres2016]

http://gawker.com/this-is-how-hillary-clinton-gets-the-coverage-she-wants-1758019058

<The emails in question, which were exchanged by Ambinder, then serving as The Atlantic’s politics editor, and Philippe Reines, Clinton’s 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 Politico’s 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 Politico’s Playbook newsletter. Ambinder’s 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 Clinton’s own staff.>

I suspect that "transactional reporting" drives much of what we see these days that newspapers and cable TV outlets are trying to pass off as news. There is no way the negative changes in the recent NYT article on the legislative record of Bernie Sanders weren't basically dictated to the NYT. Maybe one day a Freedom of Information Act information request will provide the details.

[StandingInLeftField]

1. I wonder why this story didn't gain more traction?

Hmmmm.......

Dirty politics are dirty.

[BernieforPres2016]

2. How about this part?

<The most recent batch of emails revealed another notable sausage-making exchange between Reines and a prominent reporter. In several emails sent in early September 2009, Mark Halperin—then at Time, now at Bloomberg News—appears to have arranged for a computer pre-configured with Microsoft’s Outlook calendaring software to be delivered to Reines’ house in Washington, D.C., so that Reines would be able to open particular documents in his possession, including Hillary Clinton’s travel schedules during the 2008 presidential campaign, and relay their contents to Halperin. In one email, the reporter writes to Reines:

the computer is ready to be delivered. I could have it there in 20-25 minutes

It has a newly downloaded version of Outlook, which has not been installed, because it has to be done linked to an email. I am hoping/assuming you can do that.

Is now a good time to have it brought over? Should it be left with a doorman or left upstairs?>

Imagine a media culture that would allow a reporter to put the cost of a new computer given to a political operative on an expense report and get reimbursed. Surely a reporter isn't paying for stuff like that out of his own pocket.

[StandingInLeftField]

3. Very telling...

I don't think they've strayed much from the 2008 playbook.

[ljm2002]

4. Very interesting and important story...

...K&R for more exposure.

[Duval]

5. K&R!

[malletgirl02]

7. The Daily Beast is misinforming people

There was a poster at an African American blog I visit said that his foreign policy was terrible from reading an article on the Daily Beast. This person had no idea who was behind that site, so she had no idea that it was a bias article. The media is able to spread lies is because the vast majority of people have no idea who pulls the strings behind the scenes.