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Bozell & Graham Column: Leaked, How Hillary Pandered to the Press
By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | October 25, 2016 | 10:46 PM EDT
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The Wikileaks email trove is revealing more than the servility of “objective” reporters trying to please Hillary Clinton and her aides. It’s also revealing their press strategy – how they seek to praise reporters, even as they arrogantly stonewall them.

One internal campaign e-mail exchange is salient. It discusses Mrs. Clinton speaking at an a Syracuse University event  handing out the Robin Toner Prize for journalism, named after a deceased liberal New York Times correspondent. Mrs. Clinton had been invited as a keynote speaker.

The Clinton aides are discussing how Hillary should try to please the journalists she’d been ignoring by mocking her tendency to avoid journalistic scrutiny. Press spokesman Nick Merrill liked the draft of jokes that was sent around as a strategy that never surrenders: “What I liked about it is that it provided a rare opportunity for her to show some contrition and self-awareness but do it under the guise of humor so as not to cede any ground.”

 

Source URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/10/25/bozell-graham-column-leaked-how-hillary-pandered-press