Two corrections were appended later, an editor’s note was published, addressing how readers might have been confused by the conflicting information. Quickly, some key language in the story was changed now the inquiry was called a “security referral,” and the Justice Department inquiry was described as about the email practices, not about Clinton herself, as the story originally had stated. Almost immediately, Clinton’s people got in touch with the Times and protested, calling some aspects inaccurate.

In July, Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo wrote a story-sourced anonymously-about two inspectors general asking the Justice Department to open a “criminal investigation” into Clinton regarding her email practices. It appeared on the front page under the headline, “Clinton Used Personal Email at State Department.” No big deal, you might think. secretary of state was corrupt, that she had risked national security for a quid pro quo deal.īut real trouble had arrived a month earlier when Times reporter Michael Schmidt broke the story about Clinton’s questionable email practices. Sean Hannity of Fox News distorted it, implying that it proved that the U.S. As one reader put it: “I’m very unsettled that the Times is hyping a book by an extreme partisan.” The paper in time published a front-page story, “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation amid Russian Uranium Deal,” a solidly reported piece that nonetheless became catnip for right-wing politicos. When the right-wing political consultant Peter Schweizer published his 2015 book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, the Times made an “exclusive” deal to pursue one of his story lines. One reader, Kevin Egan, emailed me: “The now-viral image is hideously ugly, demeaning, sexist, and completely premature for an election almost three years away.” As public editor-the Times newsroom’s internal watchdog-I documented the many strange chapters of Clinton coverage, including Chozick’s feature story in the Sunday magazine about her subject’s sphere of influence, titled “Planet Hillary.” The cover image of her face as a fleshy globe floating in space drew scads of negative feedback.

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