Is Press Unfair To Hillary? New York Times Weighs In...
Today's New York Times has a big take-out on a topic we addressed at some length here the other day: The Hillary camp's claim that the press is way tougher on her than on Barack Obama.
The mere existence of the article suggests that Camp Hillary's bash-the-press strategy, whatever its downsides, is successfully injecting the idea that she's a victim of the media into the political conversation. Check out what the reporters themselves have to say to The Times about it:
NBC's Lee Cowan seems to suggest that there's something to it...
“He hasn’t been around as long, so there isn’t as much to pick at,” Mr. Cowan said. “He plays everything very cool. He’s not as much of a lightning rod. His personality just doesn’t seem to draw that kind of coverage.”“Even in the conversations we have as colleagues, there is a sense of trying especially hard not to drink the Kool-Aid,” Mr. Cowan added. “It’s so rapturous, everything around him. All these huge rallies.”
But NBC's Andrea Mitchell says the Hillary camp's to blame...
“Part of it is her campaign’s fault,” Andrea Mitchell, the longtime NBC political correspondent, said backstage at the MSNBC debate in Cleveland in Tuesday. “They started with this notion of inevitability. And they were very arrogant.”
The whole thing is worth a read.
Separately, a new poll finds that there is another group who agrees with the Hillary camp on this: Nearly half of Democratic primary voters.
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