@lauraolin @ericgeller when surfaced, didn't take hold: http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-foreign-business-entanglements-would-create-unparalleled-conflicts-1478083150 …; http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html …; http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html …
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yep — people saying media wasn't covering pre-elex don't know what they're talking about; just didn't resonate
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What do you mean they didn't resonate? Genuinely asking.
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That doesn't explain why before he won, email server outnumbered Trump conflict of interest 5 to 1.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/802656352799629312 …
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: Your tweet did not accuse the media of downplaying this story, it accused the media of ignoring it. "Where was all this..."
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Okay. Maybe downplay is a better word. Why did the media downplay this story so much?
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: Now that's a good question! One possibility: The Clinton email story generated fresh, easily obtainable material regularly.
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: By contrast, it is difficult to report on Trump's business conflicts b/c so much source material comes from obscure overseas acts.
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: And much of the material predated the election, making iterative coverage less likely. Compare to emails, w/ new docs regularly.
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That is what getting played looks like.
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I wrote this before the election. Tweeted endlessly about it. It wasn't a partisan concern. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …
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: It's all about framing/context. WikiLeaks releases, esp during an election, are newsworthy events in themselves.
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