A few thoughts on this very funny screed by everyone's favorite oracle of journalistic wisdom, Professor Jeff Jarvis https://medium.com/whither-news/the-news-and-its-new-silent-majority-clinton-supporters-65dc5e0a4d76#.vzn8h7ysg …
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That's not a function of anti-HRC bias, it's a function of Trump supporters being so alien to the cultural spheres journalists travel in.
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Next, there's truth to the theory that media often adhere to the ethos of "savviness" as their guiding principle, and this distorts coverage
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But covering the ethical improprieties of the Clintons is not done out of a desire to appear savvy or engage in superficial "both sides-ism"
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It's applying normal journalistic rigor to the person who is likelier than not to be the next president of the US. She is not a victim.
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Anyway, I'll leave it there for now. The whole post is a mess, and Jarvis seems well on his way to having some kind of meltdown.
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