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> They never forgave him for exposing the Clinton emails The issue there was precisely how he was emphatically not acting as a journalist. Journalists do not
by _jal 5y ago
> They never forgave him for exposing the Clinton emails
The issue there was precisely how he was emphatically not acting as a journalist.
Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates.
Political operatives do.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago>Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates That's basically a press conference, which are both a mainstay of journalism and you'll see particularly well connected journalists leak what a press conference will be about before it happens.
- dpwm 5y ago> Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates. No, they would never do anything like that: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
- cwkoss 5y agoI think this is a naive and unrealistic perspective. Journalists coordinate with their preferred candidates all the time to gain better access. They shouldn't but they do. (And, whether wikileaks meaningfully coordinated with trump campaign is debatable)