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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Washington Post: New York Magazine's Hillary Profile 'Whitewashed Benghazi'

by John Nolte 24 Sep 2013

Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple has just launched what he calls a "massive series" that will look at how the media covers Hillary Clinton, who is almost certainly running for president in 2016. The second part of the series (you can read part one here) examines New York Magazine's lengthy profile/interview of the former Secretary of State. In his headline, Wemple accuses the publication of whitewashing Benghazi:

The message of this treatment, though, is that Benghazi is merely and exclusively a political matter, not one of leadership and preparation and integrity. For instance, those security problems — can they be legitimately dismissed in just a sentence fragment? Even Obama administration officials have conceded that the security failures constituted a significant breakdown. How much of the failure appropriately belongs to the State Department’s leader?...............To Read More....

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