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Related: About this forumClinton camp seeks correction of AP tweet promoting story on Clinton meetings
By Erik Wemple August 24 at 3:01 PM
The Clinton campaign has asked the Associated Press to amend or remove a tweet promoting an investigative story on the meetings of Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state. It reads, BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.
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BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.
Holy Moly! So more than half of all the people that huddled with Clinton were donors to her familys foundation? Grab the can of damage-control spray!
Or maybe not. Click through to the actual article and a key qualifier rears its head. The count doesnt include anyone in the U.S. federal government or representatives of foreign governments. In other words, most of the people with whom Clinton met as secretary of state. The analysis drilled in on 154 people from private interests who chatted by phone or met with Clinton in person. Eighty-five of them donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, for a total of as much as $156 million.
Those numbers represent the fruit of worthwhile investigation; we ought to know everything about the overlaps between Clintons work as secretary of state and the operations of the Clinton Foundation. Yet the tweet promoting the story, which has more than 10,000 retweets and likes combined, is tendentious and misleading. A lamentable hyping on social media. The AP is apparently cognizant of its shortcomings. Brian Fallon, press secretary for the Clinton campaign, tells the Erik Wemple Blog:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/08/24/clinton-camp-seeks-correction-of-ap-tweet-promoting-story-on-clinton-meetings/
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Clinton camp seeks correction of AP tweet promoting story on Clinton meetings (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2016
OP
promoting a novel concept: the M$M shoulders the responsibility to tell the truth!
Bill USA
Aug 2016
#3
oasis
(49,400 posts)1. Howard Dean blasted AP for their distortion just a few minutes ago
in a CNN interview.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)2. I agree that the tweet is distorted and not as clear as the article.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)3. promoting a novel concept: the M$M shoulders the responsibility to tell the truth!
recommended!