8. Connected: I had doubts about Clinton's strategy of pursuing moderate Republican voters, which I voiced but should have foregrounded
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@ggreenwald is right on journalistic responsibility here but the proviso is 2016 presented a special challenge:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/856166415405076481 …Jeet Heer added,
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10. American journalism has framework for evaluating 2 party races where both candidates roughly equivalent in qualities. 2016 not like that
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11. Clinton was flawed but no more than Romney or Obama or McCain. Trump was off-the-charts terrible (corruption, racism, misogyny etc).
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12. To extend media covered Trump's terribleness, they felt they needed to "balance" it with critique of Clinton. Hence overplay of emails.
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13. Just as media can't deal with asymmetric polarization in policy, so it can't handle asymmetric awfulness of one candidate.
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14. One thing that is still under-appreciated is how good Trump/Bannon were at gaming mainstream media, particularly NY Times.
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15. Bannon knew to win he needed not just Breitbart for the faithful but to plant anti-Clinton stories in NY Times (to reach moderate GOP)
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16. Bannon's masterstroke was concocting "Clinton Cash" fiction & planting it in Times, gaining mainstream audience for narrative.pic.twitter.com/8lIEoqK4YU
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So basically, every negative Clinton story was bogus according to you. I'm shocked.
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Who said every story was bogus. I'm citing a specific story which was concocted by Bannon, printed in Times & shown to be bogus.
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