3.So far there are some examples of CF donors getting special access, like the Slim Fast guy, but many other donors would have access anyway
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12. And Trump has admitted that the reason he gave $ to politicians (when he was still supposedly self-funding) was to buy influence/access
13. So on the transactional nature of politics Trump seems much worse than Clinton, and there's much more digging on this for journalists
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14. Yet journalists don't cover the Trump influence access story nearly as much for a number of reasons:
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15. (a) There's so much else about Trump to cover because he's outrageous and every speech sets a new fire
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16. (b) There are rich stories from Trump's past, like his history of racial discrimination in housing
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17. (c) Because Trump is so outrageous, the media seems less interested in the access/governing story which is so important
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18. (d) Thanks to FOIA disclosures, there's always a new news peg for Clinton access stories but not for Trump, which requires digging
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19. (e) Clinton campaign and HRC have longstanding antagonistic relationship with press, which just encourages aggressiveness on both sides
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20. Clinton would actually help herself by doing regular press conferences and availabilities, which would lower temperature w/journalists
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21. But watching Clinton campaign/allies tangling w/ ournalists like
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22. And in the end Clinton gets more disproportionate stories on sale of access /influence when Trump seems to be much bigger offender.~FIN~
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So why doesn't every Hillary+CGI story carry this caveat in the first graph?
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