Is Biden getting the Hillary Clinton treatment?

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
June 26 at 1:45 PM

A leading national newspaper treats the eventual Democratic presidential nominee far more harshly than it does other Democrats and dwells ad nauseam on issues far less serious than those adversely affecting the Republican. The Democratic nominee is subjected to one negative story after another, often without advancing prior stories. That’s how many Democrats felt the New York Times covered Hillary Clinton.

Numerous Democratic commentators have publicly criticized, both during the 2016 campaign and subsequently, what they perceived as the Times’s unbalanced coverage that allowed then-candidate Donald Trump to escape scrutiny for many issues that were far more serious than Clinton’s. Even the Times admitted in December 2016, “Every major publication, including The Times, published multiple stories citing the D.N.C. and Podesta emails posted by WikiLeaks, becoming a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence.”

In December 2017, a team of researchers found a troubling pattern not only at the Times but across multiple mainstream outlets:

The research team investigated this question [of election coverage], counting sentences that appeared in mainstream media sources and classifying each as detailing one of several Clinton- or Trump-related issues. In particular, they classified each sentence as describing either a scandal (e.g., Clinton’s emails, Trump’s taxes) or a policy issue (Clinton and jobs, Trump and immigration).

They found roughly four times as many Clinton-related sentences that described scandals as opposed to policies, whereas Trump-related sentences were one-and-a-half times as likely to be about policy as scandal. Given the sheer number of scandals in which Trump was implicated—sexual assault; the Trump Foundation; Trump University; redlining in his real-estate developments; insulting a Gold Star family; numerous instances of racist, misogynist, and otherwise offensive speech—it is striking that the media devoted more attention to his policies than to his personal failings. Even more striking, the various Clinton-related email scandals—her use of a private email server while secretary of state, as well as the DNC and John Podesta hacks—accounted for more sentences than all of Trump’s scandals combined (65,000 vs. 40,000) and more than twice as many as were devoted to all of her policy positions.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/26/is-biden-getting-hillary-clinton-treatment/

[OKNancy]

1. Ha! I wrote this earlier this month

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=156392

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He's getting Hillaried.

Things blown out of proportion, or out of context, or even purposely reported falsely.

As I just tweeted: Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little / Cheep cheep cheep...
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That last line is from "The Music Man".

[still_one]

5. ++++++++++++++++++

[madinmaryland]

2. It's probably going to be more like Al Gore's treatment in 2000...

That he was not an alpha male and all of MoDo’s bullshit.

IOW, they are going to nit pick at minor non-issues, unlike any real scandals. Plagiarizing something from 30 years ago is about all they have. So they’ll make up shit to say that he still does it, even though they don’t talk about tRump’s thousands of blatant lies.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

3. Yes...this

The media has great power.

[JI7]

4. no, Biden is a man so attacks don't work as much as against

women and minorities.