On CNN, Professor Calls Media 'Complicit' in Helping Russia Elect Trump President

Ryan Foley | October 2, 2018
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During Monday's edition of New Day, co-host John Berman interviewed University of Pennsylvania Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who wrote a book alleging that President Trump would not have won the 2016 Presidential Election without help from Russia.  In addition to pointing the finger at Russia, Jamieson effectively blamed the media for electing Trump President; calling the American media "complicit" in putting Wiki-Leaks material "on-air." She also claimed that there was "anti-Clinton framing" in the second and third Presidential debates.  Jamieson apparently forgot about the fact that President Trump received tough questions about the Access Hollywood tape, which also dominated the media coverage in the last month leading up to the Presidential election as much as the Hillary Clinton Wiki-Leaks scandal, if not more so.   According to Jamieson, "when the hacked content is in media across the last month of the election, that there's a change in perception that Hillary Clinton is qualified to be President that...and it's a negative change...that's difficult to explain except to say that the media agenda and the amount of anti-Clinton content had been influenced by that Russian stolen, leaked content."  

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