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The media also chose to spread the emails stolen by Russian intelligence instead of covering the Hollywood access tapes.
by mellow-lake-day 8y ago
The media also chose to spread the emails stolen by Russian intelligence instead of covering the Hollywood access tapes.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIt's 'acccess hollywood', and they were extensively covered in the last 4 weeks before the 2016 election. Maybe it would have had a bigger impact if it dropped earlier. One wonders if it was intentionally held back to be a last minute kill-shot, or if it was truly just discovered in October 2016: > An NBC source said that an Access Hollywood producer remembered the conversation on Monday, October 3, and located it in the show's archives.[4][11] The celebrity news website TMZ reports a different chronology: when senior executives at NBC learned about the video, they thought it was too early in the presidential campaign season to release it with maximum effect, and (according to TMZ) those executives publicly said they learned of the video long after they actually learned about it.[12][13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape#Publication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_...
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoWhat were you watching, they were completely silent on the emails, even though a lot of them were really salacious. They reiterated they were illegally obtained and wouldn't show them, or press anyone who wouldn't comment on them, but then they displayed leaks during the Trump Administration almost everyday... The Hollywood access tape was covered for weeks, and it's not exactly political. We've all said things in private that would make us look bad if they were recorded and displayed to the world. He apologized for it.