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>They were passing debate questions to their favorite candidate Sort of. Rather, Donna Brazile, a high-ranking Democrat at the time, was also working as a CNN
by meowface 10y ago
>They were passing debate questions to their favorite candidate
Sort of. Rather, Donna Brazile, a high-ranking Democrat at the time, was also working as a CNN analyst. She got access to general debate topics and sent them to Clinton's camp.
CNN fired her almost immediately upon learning this, and said:
>"CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate." [0]
Brazile doubled down, criticized CNN, and said her only regret was getting caught. [0]
>“My conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is very clear [...] if I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity.”
CNN is not at fault here. Brazile violated her contract and general ethical standards to support her party. I'm no fan of CNN, but they did not leak questions intentionally.
Sure, CNN could be lying and Brazile could be agreeing to take the fall. But considering they both shittalked each other in the media after she was fired, and CNN's immediate condemnation of her and her actions, then that's a pretty hefty conspiracy theory claim. To me, this just seems like the Democratic leadership wasn't afraid to play a little dirty - all of their own doing.
>claiming reading leaked document is only legal for the media
Who did this? Every major media source, including the left-leaning ones, openly discussed and sometimes provided links to the Wikileaks archives.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/donna-brazile-is-totally-not-sorry-for-leaking-cnn-debate-questions-to-hillary-clinton/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...
- remarkEon 10y ago>Who did this? The claim that "reading leaked document[s] is only legal for the media" isn't what was actually said, but this clip is probably what parent is referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A
- meowface 10y agoWell, that's pretty bad. A charitable interpretation would be that the scriptwriter, or Cuomo, genuinely believed this to be true and so were ignorantly trying to give helpful advice to the audience. Maybe not, though. Regardless, both of the grandparent post's criticisms (and I'd really only merit this one criticism as particularly valid) apply to CNN, which has consistently proved itself to be one of the worst mainstream outlets of the decade. So I wouldn't take that as a huge indictment of the media in general. He'll have to provide more examples than that.
- InternetUser 10y agoYou may be dismayed that many the new voters in the new few elections do not share your high level of faith in the mainstream media: a Data & Society report posted last week finds that American teenagers have low levels of trust in the media: https://datasociety.net/blog/2017/03/01/navigating-the-news/ https://datasociety.net/blog/2017/03/01/navigating-the-news/
- meowface 10y agoI'm not dismayed by it.