6. I had tended to discount such articles because, based on 2008/2012, I assumed Dems would run super competent campaign (GOTV etc).
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7. In Dem primaries I preferred Sanders for political reasons but thought (wrongly) that Clinton had better shot at winning presidency
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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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Are you aware that the Trump campaign was also under FBI investigation?
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That's a spurious distinction. Public deserved to know Trump's campaign under investigation.
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