{"id":131794,"date":"2016-10-15T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/is-the-press-ganging-up-on-clinton.html"},"modified":"2016-10-15T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:16:30","slug":"is-the-press-ganging-up-on-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/is-the-press-ganging-up-on-clinton.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the press "ganging up on Clinton"?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The focus of the article is on the current trend to report on election news — including debate coverage — not on the substance and context of what is being said, but in how it will "play" with the electorate, how it might affect the polls, how it adds to (in Clinton's case) the asserted "perception" of her being untrustworthy or secretive or in cahoots with Wall Street.<\/p>\n

Substance is ignored in favor of optics, especially optics enforcing optics that are already taken as established by the press. "Will people think this makes her look worse?" regardless of what "this" is, or whether it should<\/i> make her look "worse" in some canned fashion. And this holds true, not just amongst crews like Fox News, but (as in this case) with the New York Times,<\/i> et al.<\/p>\n

Given how Trump has taken a shellacking in the news this past week-plus, the argument might seem silly. But that's about actual actions, past and present, on his part, and people hearing and interpreting them themselves (those tapes have gotten far more traction than any of an endless list of people having accused him of similar behavior in the past has). An approach where each new story about Clinton is not examined on its own merits, but on how it fits into a "public perception" or "narrative" of her avoids the hard work of fact-checking and investigation, and helps turn that hypothesized "perception" into accepted reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nIn Opinion: Why is the press ganging up on Clinton?<\/a><\/span>
\nWhy does the press not challenge the conventional wisdom that Clinton is untrustworthy?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The focus of the article is on the current trend to report on election news — including debate coverage — not on the substance and context of what is being said, but in how it will "play" with the electorate, how it might affect the polls, how it adds to (in Clinton's case) the asserted … Continue reading “Is the press "ganging up on Clinton"?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137593,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/pay-raises-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":131794,"position":0},"title":"Pay Raises for Me but Not for Thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Jan-19 10:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"As federal government workers are furloughed or are working without pay, and have had their salaries frozen for 2019, apparently the budget impasse has allowed a five-year salary freeze for cabinet officers and other senior administration officials to lapse.I don't actually think this was by design. 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