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In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, according to a new Media Matters study. Media Matters reviewed print coverage in five newspapers — Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post — for stories mentioning Trump’s indictment in the week following U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s October 2 unsealing of special counsel Jack Smith’s latest filing, which reveals damning new evidence of the former president’s alleged crimes. We found the papers ran 26 combined articles mentioning Trump’s indictment in the week after the unsealing of Smith’s filing. But those same papers published 100 combined articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe, as we documented in a 2016 study. The papers ran more than 6 times as many combined front-page stories that mentioned Clinton’s server (46) as they did front-page stories that mentioned Trump’s indictment (7) over those periods. Obsessive news media focus on Clinton’s server in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign helped Trump to victory, even as Comey ultimately reconfirmed that no charges were appropriate in the case. But eight years later, with one presidential candidate facing active prosecution for federal charges related to his attempt to subvert an election, outlets are making different choices.
btw if you’re looking to have a more comprehensive coverage of jan 6th there are a couple of good resources out there.
If you’re into the heavy reading, the jan 6th report is really comprehensive and detailed. (check this link for the document source.)
if you’re more into long form run throughs (more of a podcast style) there’s this and the accompanying second part of it these were originally part of a 6 hour long stream, which i do have archived, but i believe the archive is currently down.
if you prefer a more short form docu series type there’s this though i haven’t watched this one through yet so take it with a grain of salt lol. (edit: i’ve watched like half of it since posting, it’s pretty much just a play by play of jan 6th as it happened, if you don’t want any commentary or anything, it’s a pretty good coverage of it.)
TL;DR nearly 900 page report, two indictments (one was post immunity ruling) a 6 hour panel over the facts of the j6 insurrection, broken into two parts, and a (probably) comprehensive documentary covering the events as well.
edit: added and cleaned up links.
Good stuff! Thanks for adding
yeah np, i try to make people more educated where i can, or at least push them to knowing that you can educate yourself on this stuff given enough time.
It’s better for society lol. Unfortunately it takes a shit ton of time though.