Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary’s Poll Numbers Are Being Sunk by Media Torpedoes from All Sides (HILLARY GROUP)
...to hear the media tell it, things are not looking up for Hillary, because there is not a journalist alive today, right, left, or center, who stands to gain anything from good news about Hillary Clinton. The recent revelations that cut in her favor have been reported in a relative whisper, while the bulk of the Hillary Clinton coverage has shifted over to the backup narrative, the threat to her candidacy posed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), buoyed by the trust issue they created by pimping a now-debunked poll.
Hillarys problem is that she has become the common enemy of every corner of the media. Fox News and Joe Scarborough flog the email story because theyre Fox News and Joe Scarborough, while objective media like CNN, the New York Times, and the likes of Andrea Mitchell hype it because if its not a story, then they dont have a story. But even the liberal hosts at MSNBC, and perhaps especially them, have been chipping away at Clinton for months, for their own reasons.
Their coverage of the email story has essentially consisted of weak debunking efforts, combined with concern-trolling about the perception that these stories feed into. When the New York Times falsely reported that Hillarys email use was the subject of a criminal probe, for example, the response was not to demand the reporters firing, but to praise him as excellent and to call Hillary supporters paranoid....
The point is that no one in the media is going to save Hillary Clinton. The left is too invested in Bernie Sanders, and everyone else is too invested in a close Democratic primary. What Hillary Clinton needs to turn this narrative around is the same thing that President Obama used to flip the lame-duck narrative that dogged him after Democrats fled from him during the midterms: a string of big victories....
http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillarys-poll-numbers-being-sunk-by-media-torpedoes-from-all-sides/ via Mediaite
Gothmog
(145,667 posts)Hillary Clinton is doing what is needed to build up her ground game and to win the nomination. The media want to make the race look closer than it is. Nate Silver still has her chances at 93% which is a decent number
pansypoo53219
(21,004 posts)tRUMP is sooooooooo shiney. and he is so EASY. hillary is hard werk! and and and they MUST HAVE A REAL HORSE race to cover, this poll that poll.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Cha
(297,810 posts)Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)But Corp Media LOVES a horserace. If the Dem nomination becomes one, cha-ching!
So they will fall all over themselves to post bad news about Hillary, as it happens, Live!
and post the retractions, like the sample of the poll being Women from a Bernie Sanders meetup, later on in the dead of night.