{"id":4069,"date":"2016-09-03T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T17:38:33","slug":"do-the-press-clinton-rules-stoke-public-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/do-the-press-clinton-rules-stoke-public-cynicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Press’ Clinton Rules Stoke Public Cynicism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"extra-extra\"<\/a>There was a lot of noise this last week about the AP’s report on the Clinton Foundation. They found nothing untoward, but spun it into something unsavory. Lots of dark intimations but when you look there’s nothing there. You wonder if there isn’t something to the notion that the press needs to have the presidential race be a nail-biter, if only so they have something to write about through November.<\/p>\n

But if artificially tightening the presidential race and increasing the likelihood the we might elect a racist con man president isn’t agonizing enough, the bottomless cynicism on display here\u00a0undermines the foundations of public life. \u00a0How much do we lose when people who have the ability to improve the world have to\u00a0fear that their motives will be questioned and their reputations dragged through the mud?<\/p>\n

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The bad dynamics of media Clinton syndrome: when search for scandal comes up empty, they keep digging because there must be a pony in there<\/p>\n

\u2014 Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n