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riversedge

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Mon Mar 21, 2016, 09:41 AM Mar 2016

Jill Abramson -Frm NYT editor--on Hillary Clinton: ‘She does get more scrutiny’ than men

We do not need Jill to tel us that--just look at the news stores all around us.



Jill Abramson on Hillary Clinton: ‘She does get more scrutiny’ than men
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jill-abramson-hillary-clinton-2016-221017

In an exclusive interview for POLITICO’s ‘Off Message’ podcast, the former top editor of the New York Times opens up on 2016, the Clintons and the Donald Trump phenomenon.

By Glenn Thrush

03/21/16 05:15 AM EDT



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‘They … Do Whatever They Want to Do Towards Women Like Me’

By Mike Ross

A couple of years back, a friend of Hillary Clinton’s told me the candidate-to-be was “disappointed” that the first woman to edit the New York Times — veteran investigative reporter Jill Abramson — wasn’t more sympathetic to her plight as a feminist pioneer in politics.
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“She does get more scrutiny” than other candidates – especially male candidates, Abramson told me during a 50-minute interview for POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast last week. When I asked her if Clinton’s arch-defender David Brock had a point when he lashed the Times for giving the Clintons an unfair “level of scrutiny,” she interrupted – to agree.

“Yeah, I do,” said Abramson – who was ousted in 2014 after reportedly complaining that her compensation package was inferior to that of her male predecessor, Bill Keller.

“[W]e, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate,” added Abramson, who rose to the top job in 2011. “I did not feel, during my regime, that we were giving her way more scrutiny than anyone else.” But, she said, “Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies she’s been in are immediately labeled, you know, Travel-gate or Email-gate… if you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they don’t know anything specific about any of them.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jill-abramson-hillary-clinton-2016-221017#ixzz43XmGraXX
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Jill Abramson -Frm NYT editor--on Hillary Clinton: ‘She does get more scrutiny’ than men (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2016 OP
I think that American women are going to come out for Hillary in record numbers... Walk away Mar 2016 #1
The M$M really does need to start scrutinizing BS.. that would sell. Cha Mar 2016 #2
Poor Jill ... DURHAM D Mar 2016 #3

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
1. I think that American women are going to come out for Hillary in record numbers...
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 09:45 AM
Mar 2016

and if some of them do it because they are sick and tired of women being treated like this, then that's just fine with me.

Cha

(295,901 posts)
2. The M$M really does need to start scrutinizing BS.. that would sell.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 09:48 AM
Mar 2016

Oh that's right.. I remember Jill Abramson.. Good I'm glad she bringing this out into the Light!

TY rivers~

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