Comey’s crazy act, amped by cable hysteria
November 1, 2016 12:00 AM
By Tony Norman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Last Friday, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet made a statement to the Financial Times that I disagreed with strongly. In the broadest of terms, Mr. Baquet disparaged the election coverage of both CNN and Fox as “ridiculous” and “bad for democracy” ...
... I complained to several of my colleagues about Mr. Baquet’s singling out cable news for being “bad for democracy” when the threat was far more complicated than CNN’s hiring of Trump campaign shill Corey Lewandowski as an on-air contributor or “Fox & Friends” complicity in creating the Trump phenomena.
Within an hour I was eating my words and doubling down on Mr. Baquet’s critique of CNN and Fox. The news about FBI Director James Comey’s letter to congressional Republicans updating them about thousands of new emails that could be pertinent to the Clinton investigation broke in the early afternoon.
What followed next were hours of hysteria, shameless speculation based on nothing and some of the most misleading news coverage Americans have ever been witness to in the sprint to Election Day ...
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