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I can't believe the complete media blackout of these emails. Maybe it has changed since a day or two ago, when I checked around, but here's how it stood: - CNN

I can't believe the complete media blackout of these emails. Maybe it has changed since a day or two ago, when I checked around, but here's how it stood: - CNN: zero coverage. top story = Trump accused of groping - MSNBC: zero coverage. top story = Trump accused of groping - New York Times: actually mentioned the emails and a bit of their content...in an small article. Below the fold. Titled "Trump Finds Unusual Ally in Wikileaks" which was almost entirely about how Trump's campaign is pleased with the leak, actual content of the emails was only alluded to in a couple of sentences toward the very end of the article. top story? Trump accused of groping. My biggest disappointment was the Financial Times - I held out so much hope that they would actually have some integrity and report about these frankly huge stories. Nope. Zero coverage, top US politics story = Trump accused of groping. The only places I saw that covered were Fox, drudgereport, and Breitbart. I saw RT.com had a story about them today but I don't know if they reported on it two days ago when I checked around. I haven't seen anything like this outside of state-run newspapers like Pravda...it feels like everyone's taking crazy pills. Maybe someone can just do an s/Clinton/Trump/g and send them to the Times?

tzs 10y ago
The emails the article is talking about don't seem all that interesting. Basically, they show that the Obama organization and Democratic party officials were working on figuring out staffing well before the election. I would hope that every competent Presidential candidate does that.
- shoehornhands 10y ago
  I was referring to the email dump in general. There are enormous stories in there, any one of which if they involved Trump instead of Clinton would be front page top story, no question. With regard to the specific subset of emails OP's article refers to, I believe the big deal is that a Citigroup executive basically had his pick of all these positions.
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  - TYPE_FASTER 10y ago
    Cheney was a Halliburton executive and led the Bush transition. What's the big story here?
angry-hacker 10y ago
Google Trends: WikiLeaks vs. Trump Sex Allegation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715638)
- shoehornhands 10y ago
  That's really the only glimmer of hope I've seen through all this. There was a report I saw somewhere that people were experiencing unprecedented physical stress during this election season, and I believe it: seeing stuff like this everywhere you turn really does to an extent make you feel like you're going crazy.
zzalpha 10y ago
You know, instead of assuming a vast conspiracy, you could use regular ol' common sense. On the one hand we have an email dump that, while there seems to be some amount of smoke, doesn't itself represent much of a fire. Just the usual Clinton crap: lots of shady stuff that rides the line of ethics, and veers pretty far into a inside political baseball. On the other, we have a wildly controversial presidential candidate caught talking about sexually assaulting women, followed by women coming out and saying he actually did it. Based purely on the assumption that news == entertainment, which story do you think will get the headlines?
- shoehornhands 10y ago
  > On the one hand we have an email dump that, while there seems to be some amount of smoke, doesn't itself represent much of a fire. Just the usual Clinton crap: lots of shady stuff that rides the line of ethics, and veers pretty far into a inside political baseball. You do not seem to be very familiar with them. >On the other, we have a wildly controversial presidential candidate caught talking about sexually assaulting women Demonstrably false. Say what you want about the unsavory nature of the quote, the only way it can refer to sexual assault is if you willfully omit the last part of the quote (" they let you do it.") > followed by women coming out and actually saying he did it Then followed by several witnesses who came out and said "I was there, and nothing remotely close to this happened." These were also to my knowledge not reported in the mainstream media with the exception of the New York Post, which covered the witness to the allegations of sexual assault on a plane. > Based purely on the assumption that news == entertainment, which story do you think will get the headlines? My issue wasn't that they weren't getting the same font size as the groping allegations - my issue is that they aren't getting covered AT ALL. So do I believe the stories contained in the wikileaks dumps are more newsworthy than "Donald Trump got fresh with me 30 years ago (and do me a favor and ignore anyone who says otherwise? kthx)"? ...Yeah, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say they are. Or again, you could "use regular ol' common sense" and ask yourself 'If I replaced the name 'Clinton' with the name 'Trump' in this case, would the outcome be the same?" If you don't think so, I'll give you my Skype username so you can look me in the eye and tell me the media wouldnt pounce on a story of Trump's campaign manager complaining about "needy Latinos"

tzs 10y ago

The emails the article is talking about don't seem all that interesting. Basically, they show that the Obama organization and Democratic party officials were working on figuring out staffing well before the election. I would hope that every competent Presidential candidate does that.

shoehornhands 10y ago
I was referring to the email dump in general. There are enormous stories in there, any one of which if they involved Trump instead of Clinton would be front page top story, no question. With regard to the specific subset of emails OP's article refers to, I believe the big deal is that a Citigroup executive basically had his pick of all these positions.
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- TYPE_FASTER 10y ago
  Cheney was a Halliburton executive and led the Bush transition. What's the big story here?

angry-hacker 10y ago

Google Trends: WikiLeaks vs. Trump Sex Allegation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715638)

shoehornhands 10y ago
That's really the only glimmer of hope I've seen through all this. There was a report I saw somewhere that people were experiencing unprecedented physical stress during this election season, and I believe it: seeing stuff like this everywhere you turn really does to an extent make you feel like you're going crazy.

zzalpha 10y ago

You know, instead of assuming a vast conspiracy, you could use regular ol' common sense. On the one hand we have an email dump that, while there seems to be some amount of smoke, doesn't itself represent much of a fire. Just the usual Clinton crap: lots of shady stuff that rides the line of ethics, and veers pretty far into a inside political baseball. On the other, we have a wildly controversial presidential candidate caught talking about sexually assaulting women, followed by women coming out and saying he actually did it. Based purely on the assumption that news == entertainment, which story do you think will get the headlines?

shoehornhands 10y ago
> On the one hand we have an email dump that, while there seems to be some amount of smoke, doesn't itself represent much of a fire. Just the usual Clinton crap: lots of shady stuff that rides the line of ethics, and veers pretty far into a inside political baseball. You do not seem to be very familiar with them. >On the other, we have a wildly controversial presidential candidate caught talking about sexually assaulting women Demonstrably false. Say what you want about the unsavory nature of the quote, the only way it can refer to sexual assault is if you willfully omit the last part of the quote (" they let you do it.") > followed by women coming out and actually saying he did it Then followed by several witnesses who came out and said "I was there, and nothing remotely close to this happened." These were also to my knowledge not reported in the mainstream media with the exception of the New York Post, which covered the witness to the allegations of sexual assault on a plane. > Based purely on the assumption that news == entertainment, which story do you think will get the headlines? My issue wasn't that they weren't getting the same font size as the groping allegations - my issue is that they aren't getting covered AT ALL. So do I believe the stories contained in the wikileaks dumps are more newsworthy than "Donald Trump got fresh with me 30 years ago (and do me a favor and ignore anyone who says otherwise? kthx)"? ...Yeah, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say they are. Or again, you could "use regular ol' common sense" and ask yourself 'If I replaced the name 'Clinton' with the name 'Trump' in this case, would the outcome be the same?" If you don't think so, I'll give you my Skype username so you can look me in the eye and tell me the media wouldnt pounce on a story of Trump's campaign manager complaining about "needy Latinos"