The explosive news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conducted official business from a private email account during her entire tenure as secretary of state has sparked a new round of finger-pointing at the news media.
All of it boiled down to one question, posted on Twitter by BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray.
how’d she get away with it for so long? http://t.co/pvJ78J6t0l
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) March 3, 2015
It’s a good question, but an awkward one for a journalist.
A spokesman told the New York Times Clinton had used the private email account to communicate with State Department employees throughout her tenure. That means the practice must have been known to a good many people.
And they’re the kind of people who are sources for Washington journalists who like to expose wrongdoing — at least when Republicans are in office.
Asked the journalist. MT @RosieGray how’d she get away with it for so long? http://t.co/bU2ysqdV8U
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 3, 2015
Journalist heal thyself RT @RosieGray: how’d she get away with it for so long? http://t.co/Qb6r2BmXtQ
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) March 3, 2015
Lazy, left-leaning media? RT@RosieGray how’d she get away with it for so long? http://t.co/Wc3EKkkLqj …
— Just Karl (@justkarl) March 3, 2015
Gray didn’t take some of the criticism well and maybe with good reason. Youth can excuse much.
@exjon i wasn’t in the business yet for most of Hillary’s tenure at State. thanks for the baseless insinuation though
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) March 3, 2015
.@RosieGray Perhaps not you in particular, but I’m unclear who but a journalist was supposed to ferret out this information.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 3, 2015
And that is the real question. The issue isn’t one reporter — or even one news organization. Clinton got away with it because she’s a Democrat, and a Clinton, and one of the few real hopes the Democrats have of salvaging something out of the disaster that is the Obama presidency.
And the mainstream news media aren’t going to go out of their way to expose her.
@RosieGray If the Fourth Estate refuses to hold officeholders accountable and also destroys citizens who try, this is what happens. — jon gabriel (@exjon) March 3, 2015
The email scandal — if it becomes one — was uncovered by U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy’s House Select Committee on Benghazi. It was not uncovered by two intrepid reporters meeting some chain-smoking source in a Washington garage.
How long it holds the media’s interest will be another question.
@RosieGray Now the media is not ignoring this. But it’s hard not to think the media is the reason she got away with it for so long.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 3, 2015
@exjon I’ll be curious if the media pursues this with the fervor it did other pressing issues like whether Obama Loves America. @RosieGray
— Michael Blum (@MichaelBlum3) March 3, 2015
Or how Mitt Romney treats his dogs.
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