The Clinton rules are at the heart of the New York Times's botched Hillary story

[DanTex]

It's hard to foul up a major story as badly as the New York Times did with last week's big — and erroneous — scoop that two US inspectors general had asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled sensitive or classified information in using a personal account to email with State Department officials and friends.

As it turned out, most of the important points in the story were wrong — really wrong. The Times changed its reporting online and, too slowly, issued two corrections. But as the Times's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, observed in a scathing autopsy of the article, "You can’t put stories like this back in the bottle — they ripple through the entire news system."

This episode is a particularly illustrative example of how an unspoken set of "Clinton rules" govern the media's treatment of Clinton and how that ends up distorting the public view of her.

The fallout has followed a familiar pattern: Republicans seize on an inaccurate report — often one they pushed into the media in the first place — and Democrats point to what's wrong in the story to undermine what's right with it. Pretty soon, the narrative emanates out from the original source of the reporting to conservative and liberal television pundits and radio talk-show hosts, ensuring that the details, and the truth, will be casualties of the never-ending political war over Clinton.

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9059953/clinton-rules-new-york-times

One small correction to this article: it's not just Republicans who seize on inaccurate reports about Hillary.

[SunSeeker]

1. K & R

[NCTraveler]

2. "The New York Times is shape-shifting into the National Enquirer"

In this instance, the poster who wrote that three months before disseminating said article from the NYT, was wrong. They appear to be much more sinister than the Enquirer on occasion. Still didn't stop them from proudly chasing "bumps" and "recs." It's getting bad.

[DanTex]

5. It's not just the NYT, it's the media in general.

Finding a Clinton "scandal" that sticks is the quickest route to fame for any political reporter.

It is absurd, though, for the anti-Hillary people to claim that somehow the MSM is in her pocket.

[JaneyVee]

3. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

You can't unring that bell.

[oasis]

4. "It's not just Republicans who seize on inaccurate reports about Hillary"

Huh? Please say it isn't so.

[mcar]

8. Take a look around this joint

Since that "story" broke.

[ericson00]

6. the only people who like the Clintons are the people

instead of the press. Bill got elected with the largest number of votes both times: no Bush ever did that or will do it. Not to mention his 2nd term approval ratings too and the fact his VP, against their wishes, was the real winner of the 2000 election.

[mcar]

7. So true

This non-story will be brought up again and again as truth " because it was in the Times."

Liberal media my butt.

[George II]

9. "it's not just Republicans who seize on inaccurate reports about Hillary"

Amen!

[BooScout]

10. Of course they were...

The NYTs wrote the book when it comes to smearing Hillary.