As John Sexton reported yesterday, CNN has cut all ties with DNC interim chair Donna Brazile after leaked emails revealed another instance of her conspiring with media figures to give Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance. It’s refreshing to finally see someone in the media talking about this story because such coverage was almost completely absent when we originally found out about it. To his credit, Jake Tapper told our own Larry O’Connor at that time that he found the entire affair journalistically horrifying and there was a short piece about it on the news network’s website, but aside from that there was pretty much a news blackout.
It’s understandable how the press would be reluctant to talk about this story for the most part. After all the time they spent decrying Donald Trump for claiming that the election is rigged and accusing him of undermining our democracy it would be, at best, rather awkward to have to talk about actual election rigging happening at the hands of a star debate moderator and the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Now, several weeks later, the cat is finally out of the bag and I’m seeing the question being raised in newspapers and on Fox, CNN and Morning Joe. Jack Shafer at Politico went even further, saying it’s high time that not only Brazile, but most of the activists posing as opinion journalists should be hitting the road...
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